Mammal Neogene zones

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The Mammal Neogene zones or MN zones are system of biostratigraphic zones in the stratigraphic record used to correlate mammal-bearing fossil localities of the Neogene period of Europe. It consists of seventeen consecutive zones (numbered MN 1 through MN 18; MN 7 and 8 have been joined into MN 7/8 zone) defined through reference faunas, well-known sites that other localities can be correlated with. MN 1 is the earliest zone, and MN 18 is the most recent. The MN zones are complementary with the MP zones in the Paleogene.

The zones are as follows: [1]

IntervalReference Locality [2] StartEnd ICS stages [3]
MN 18 2.0 Ma0 Ma Gelasian to present
MN 17 Saint-Vallier (France)2.5 Ma2.0 MaGelasian
MN 16 Arondelli / Triversa (Italy)3.2 Ma2.5 MaGelasian - Piacenzian - Zanclean
MN 15 Perpignan (France)4.2 Ma3.2 MaZanclean
MN 14 Podlesice (Poland)4.9 Ma4.2 MaZanclean
MN 13 El Arquilla (Spain)7.0 Ma (between 6.8 and 7.2 Ma)4.9 MaZanclean - Messinian
MN 12Los Mansuetos (Spain)7.75 Ma (between 8.0 and 7.5 Ma)7.0 Ma (between 6.8 and 7.2 Ma)Messinian - Tortonian
MN 11 Crevillente 2 (Spain)8.7 Ma7.75 Ma (between 8.0 and 7.5 Ma)Tortonian
MN 10 Masia del Barbo (Spain)9.7 Ma8.7 MaTortonian
MN 9 Can Llobateres (Spain)11.1 Ma9.7 MaTortonian
MN 7/8 La Grive M (France)12.75 Ma (between 13.0 and 12.5 Ma)11.1 MaTortonian - Serravallian
MN 6 Sansan (France)13.7 Ma12.75 Ma (between 13.0 and 12.5 Ma)Serravallian
MN 5 Faluns Pont Levoy- Thenay (France)16.0 Ma13.7 MaSerravallian - Langhian - Burdigalian
MN 4 La Romieu (France)16.9 Ma (between 16.6 and 17.2 Ma)16.0 MaBurdigalian
MN 3 Wintershof-West (Germany)20.0 Ma16.9 Ma (between 16.6 and 17.2 Ma)Burdigalian
MN 2
  • Montaigu (France)
  • Laugnac (France)
22.4 Ma20.0 MaBurdigalian - Aquitanian
MN 1 Paulhiac (France)23.03 ± 0.05 Ma [4] [5] [6] 22.4 MaAquitanian

See also

References

  1. "Mammal Neogene Units". Paleobiology Database . Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. Mein, P. (1990), Lindsay, Everett H.; Fahlbusch, Volker; Mein, Pierre (eds.), "Updating of MN Zones" , European Neogene Mammal Chronology, NATO ASI Series, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 73–90, doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-2513-8_6, ISBN   978-1-4899-2513-8 , retrieved 2021-06-02
  3. International Commission on Stratigraphy (2021.) - INTERNATIONAL CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC CHART
  4. Norbert 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.
  5. İslamoğlu, 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. S2CID   54934222.
  6. Floréal Solé; Bernard Marandat; Fabrice Lihoreau (2020). "The hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the French locality of Aumelas (Hérault), with possible new representatives from the late Ypresian". Geodiversitas. 42 (13): 185–214. Bibcode:2020Geodv..42..185S. doi: 10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a13 . S2CID   219585388.