Sicilian Stage

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The Sicilian European Stage is a European faunal stage in the period of geological time between 0.781 +/- 0.005 Ma and 0.26 Ma (million years ago). It is considered to be in the middle of the Pleistocene epoch.

The Sicilian Stage starts with the Brunhes-Matuyama magnetic reversal at the end of the Calabrian. The Milazzian faunal stage is sometimes considered to be the last part of the Sicilian, and sometimes to be between the Sicilian and the following Tyrrhenian Stage.

[edit] Representative Fauna

[edit] References

• "Sicilian European Stage" The International Commission on Stratigraphy
• Gignoux, M. (1910) "Sur la Classification du Pliocene et du Quarternaire de I'talie du Sud" Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences 150: pp. 841-844

Preceded by Calabrian Stage 1.806 – 0.781

European Faunal Stage Sicilian Stage 0.781 – 0.26

Succeeded by Tyrrhenian Stage 0.26 – 0.01143