MN zonation

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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]

Interval Reference Locality[2] Start End ICS stages[3]
2.0 Ma 0 Ma Gelasian to present
Saint-Vallier (France) 2.5 Ma 2.0 Ma Gelasian
MN 16 Arondelli / Triversa (Italy) 3.2 Ma 2.5 Ma Gelasian - Piacenzian - Zanclean
Perpignan (France) 4.2 Ma 3.2 Ma Zanclean
Podlesice (Portugal) 4.9 Ma 4.2 Ma Zanclean
MN 13 El Arquilla (Spain) 7.0 Ma (between 6.8 and 7.2 Ma) 4.9 Ma Zanclean - Messinian
Los Mansuetos (Spain) 7.75 Ma (between 8.0 and 7.5 Ma) 7.0 Ma (between 6.8 and 7.2 Ma) Messinian - Tortonian
Crevillente 2 (Spain) 8.7 Ma 7.75 Ma (between 8.0 and 7.5 Ma) Tortonian
Masia del Barbo (Spain) 9.7 Ma 8.7 Ma Tortonian
Can Llobateres (Spain) 11.1 Ma 9.7 Ma Tortonian
La Grive M (France) 12.75 Ma (between 13.0 and 12.5 Ma) 11.1 Ma Tortonian - Serravallian
Sansan (France) 13.7 Ma 12.75 Ma (between 13.0 and 12.5 Ma) Serravallian
MN 5 Faluns Pont Levoy- Thenay (France) 16.0 Ma 13.7 Ma Serravallian - Langhian - Burdigalian
MN 4 La Romieu (France) 16.9 Ma (between 16.6 and 17.2 Ma) 16.0 Ma Burdigalian
Wintershof-West (Germany) 20.0 Ma 16.9 Ma (between 16.6 and 17.2 Ma) Burdigalian
  • Montaigu (France)
  • Laugnac (France)
22.4 Ma 20.0 Ma Burdigalian - Aquitanian
Paulhiac (France) 23.03 ± 0.05 Ma[4][5][6] 22.4 Ma Aquitanian

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References[]

  • Bruijn, H. de, Daams, R., Daxner-Höck, G., Fahlbusch, V., Ginsburg, L., Mein, P. and Morales, J. (1992.) "Report of the RCMNS working group on fossil mammals", Reisensburg 1990. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 26(2–3):65–118.
  • Dam, J. A. van, Alcalá, L., Alonso Zarza, A., Calvo, J. P., Garcés, M. and Krijgsman, W. (2001.) "The Upper Miocene mammal record from the Teruel–Alfambra region (Spain). The MN system and continental stage/age concepts discussed." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(2):367–385. JSTOR 20061959.
  1. ^ "Mammal Neogene Units". www.fossilworks.org. 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. ^ Yeşim İslamoğlu, Mathias Harzhauser, Martin Gross, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Stjepan Čorić, Andreas Kroh, Fred Rögl & Jan van der Made (2006). "From Tethys to Eastern Paratethys: Oligocene depositional environments, paleoecology and paleobiogeography of the Thrace Basin (NW Turkey)" (PDF). Springer. Retrieved July 17, 2009. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a13.
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