Base of Gauss/Gilbert (C2An/C2Ar) magnetic reversal
Upper boundary GSSP
Punta Piccola Section, Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Italy 37°17′20″N13°29′36″E / 37.2889°N 13.4933°E / 37.2889; 13.4933
Upper GSSP ratified
January 1997[5]
Artistic interpretation of the flooding 5.3 mya of the Mediterranean through the Gibraltar Strait (A) and the Sicilian strait (F)
The Zanclean is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene. It spans the time between 5.332 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago) and 3.6 ± 0.005 Ma. It is preceded by the Messinian Age of the Miocene Epoch, and followed by the Piacenzian Age.
The Zanclean can be correlated with regionally used stages, such as the Opoitian of New Zealand,[6] and the Tabianian or Dacian of Central Europe. It also corresponds to the late Hemphillian to mid-Blancan North American Land Mammal Ages. In California, the Zanclean roughly corresponds to the middle part of the Delmontian stage.[7]
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