Sicilian Stage

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.

Representative Fauna

Tursiops osennae (Simonelli, 1911), a porpoise ^[1]

Notes

^ Kellogg, Remington (March 1928) "The History of Whales – Their Adaptation to Life in the Water" The Quarterly Review of Biology 3(1): pp. 29–76, page 60

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