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The Mammal Paleogene zones or MP zones are a system of biostratigraphic zones in the stratigraphic record used to correlate mammal-bearing fossil localities of the Paleogene period of Europe. It consists of thirty consecutive zones (numbered MP 1 through MP 30; MN 8 and 9 have been joined into MN 8 + 9 zone; and MP 17 zone is split into two zones - MP 17A and MP 17B zone) defined through reference faunas, well-known sites that other localities can be correlated with. MP 1 is the earliest zone, and MP 30 is the most recent. The Grande Coupure extinction and faunal turnover event marks the boundary between MP 20 and MP 21, the post-Grande Coupure faunas occurring by MP 21 onward. The MP zones are complementary with the MN zones in the Neogene.
These zones were proposed at the Congress in Mainz held in 1987 to help paleontologists provide more specific reference points to evolutionary events in Europe, but are used by paleontologists on other continents as well.[1]
Epoch
ICS age
ELMMZ
Age (Ma)
Miocene
Aquitanian
Agenian
younger
Oligocene
Chattian
Arvernian
23.03–29.2
Rupelian
Suevian
29.2–33.8
Headonian
33.8–37.2
Eocene
Priabonian
Bartonian
Robiacian
37.2–42.7
Lutetian
Geiseltalian
42.7–48.5
Grauvian
48.5–50.8
Ypresian
Neustrian
50.8–55.0
Paleocene
Thanetian
Cernaysian
55.0–55.9
Subdivision of the Paleogene period into European Land Mammal Mega Zones (ELMMZ).
The zones are as follows:
Interval
Start
End
ICS stages[2]
MP 30
23.2 Ma[3]
23.03 ± 0.05 Ma[1][4][3]
Chattian
MP 29
23.9 Ma[3]
23.2 Ma
Chattian
MP 28
24.6 ± 0.1 Ma[4][3]
23.9 Ma
Chattian
MP 27
25.4 Ma[3]
24.6 ± 0.1 Ma
Chattian
MP 26
27.3 Ma[3]
25.4 Ma
Chattian
MP 25
28.8 Ma[3]
27.3 Ma
Chattian - Rupelian
MP 24
30.0 Ma[3]
28.8 Ma
Rupelian
MP 23
30.9 ± 0.1 Ma[4][3]
30.0 Ma
Rupelian
MP 22
32.5 Ma[3]
30.9 ± 0.1 Ma
Rupelian
MP 21
33.9 ± 0.05 Ma[4][3]
32.5 Ma
Rupelian
MP 20
34.0 Ma[3]
33.9 ± 0.05 Ma
Priabonian
MP 19
35.0 Ma[3]
34.0 Ma
Priabonian
MP 18
37.0 Ma[3]
35.0 Ma
Priabonian
MP 17B
37.5 Ma[3]
37.0 Ma
Priabonian
MP 17A
37.8 Ma[3]
37.5 Ma
Priabonian
MP 16
40.0 Ma[3]
37.8 Ma
Bartonian
MP 15
41.2 Ma[3]
40.0 Ma
Lutetian
MP 14
43.5 Ma[3]
41.2 Ma
Lutetian
MP 13
44.9 Ma[3]
43.5 Ma
Lutetian
MP 12
46.3 Ma[3]
44.9 Ma
Lutetian
MP 11
47.8 Ma[3]
46.3 Ma
Lutetian
MP 10
50.8 Ma[3]
47.8 Ma
Ypresian
MP 8 + 9
55.2 Ma[3]
50.8 Ma
Ypresian
MP 7
56.0 Ma[3]
55.2 Ma
Ypresian
MP 6
57.2 Ma[3]
56.0 Ma
Thanetian
MP 5
57.2 Ma
Thanetian
MP 4
Paleocene series
MP 3
Paleocene series
MP 2
Paleocene series
MP 1
66.043 ± 0.011 Ma[5]
61.7 ± 0.05 Ma[6]
Danian
^ abNorbert Schmidt-Kittler (ed.) "International symposium on mammalian biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the European Paleogene, Mainz, February 18th-21st 1987." Münchner geowiss. Abh., 10, 1-311.
^International Commission on Stratigraphy (2021.) - INTERNATIONAL CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC CHART
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^ abcdİslamoğlu, Yeşim; Harzhauser, Mathias; Gross, Martin; Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo; Čorić, Stjepan; Kroh, Andreas; Rögl, Fred; van der Made, Jan (2006). "From Tethys to Eastern Paratethys: Oligocene depositional environments, paleoecology and paleobiogeography of the Thrace Basin (NW Turkey)". International Journal of Earth Sciences. 99 (1). Springer: 183–200. doi:10.1007/s00531-008-0378-0.
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