Zanclean

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Subdivisions of the Quaternary period
System	Series	Stage	Age (Ma)
Quaternary	Holocene		0–0.0117
	Pleistocene	Tarantian (Upper)	0.0117–0.126
		Ionian (Middle)	0.126–0.781
		Calabrian (Middle)	0.781–1.806
		Gelasian (Lower)	1.806–2.588
Neogene	Pliocene	Piacenzian	older
In Europe and North America, the Holocene is subdivided into Preboreal, Boreal, Atlantic, Subboreal and Subatlantic stages of the Blytt-Sernander time scale. There are many regional subdivisions for the Upper or Late Pleistocene, usually these represent locally recognized cold (glacial) and warm (interglacial) periods. The last glacial period ends with the cold Younger Dryas substage.

In the geologic time scale, the Zanclean Stage (also known as Tabianian, Dacian) is the lowest stage of the Pliocene epoch (geology). It spans the time between 5.332 ± 0.005 Ma and 3.6 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago). It is preceded by the Messinian stage of the Miocene epoch, and followed by the Piacenzian stage of the Late Pliocene.

Generally in North America, the Zanclean corresponds to late Hemphillian to mid-Blancan stages. In California, the Zanclean roughly corresponds to the mid-Delmontian.

[edit] References

• ICS Subcommission for Stratigraphic Information
• GeoWhen Database - Zanclean

Neogene period
Miocene	Pliocene	Pleistocene	Holocene
Aquitanian | Burdigalian Langhian | Serravallian Tortonian | Messinian	Zanclean | Piacenzian (Gelasian)	Gelasian | Early Middle | Late	Boreal | Atlantic