Piacenzian

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Quaternary Period This box: view • talk • edit
↑ Neogene
Pliocene Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma) Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma) Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma) Pleistocene Early Pleistocene (1.8 - 0.78 Ma) Middle Pleistocene (780 - 130 ka) Late Pleistocene (130 - 10 ka) Older Dryas (14 - 13.6 ka) Allerød (13.6 - 12.9 ka) Younger Dryas (12.9 - 11.5 ka) Holocene (10 ka - present) Boreal Atlantic

Piacenzian (also known as Astian, Redonian, or Romanian) is a age of the Pliocene Epoch. It spans the time between 3.6 ± 0.005 Ma and 2.588 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago).

It is usually referred to as the Early Late Pliocene, and sometimes, unofficially, as the Middle Pliocene.

[edit] References

• GeoWhen Database - Piacenzian

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