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                               Ordovician Period
 
                     From 488.3 +/- 1.7 To 443.7 +/- 1.5 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Conodont, lowest occurrence of Iapetognathus fluctivagus; 
     just above base of Cordylodus lindstromi conodont Zone.  Just below lowest 
     occurrence of planktonic graptolites.
  End Defined By:  Graptolites, lowest occurrences of Parakidograptus 
     acuminatus and Akidograptus ascensus.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
  End Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  North American Stage: Ibexian (491 - 471.8)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon: Phanerozoic (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era: Paleozoic   (542 - 251)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Period:                  Cambrian      (542 - 488.3)
  Epoch:                   Late Cambrian (501 - 488.3)
  Australian Stage:        Payntonian    (491 - 488.3)
  Regional Stage:          Dolgellian    (492.5 - 488.3)
  Russian-Kazakhian Stage: Batyrbayan    (491.5 - 488.3)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Period:               Silurian       (443.7 - 416)
  Epoch:                Early Silurian (443.7 - 422.9)
  Sub-Epoch:            Llandovery     (443.7 - 428.2)
  ICS Stage:            Rhuddanian     (443.7 - 439)
  Australian Stage:     Keiloran       (443.7 - 433)
  Chinese Stage:        Longmaxian     (443.7 - 438)
  North American Stage: Medinan        (443.7 - 438)
  Regional Stage:       Alexandrian    (443.7 - 436)
 
 -- Contains the Following Epochs --
  Epoch: Early Ordovician  (488.3 - 471.8)
  Epoch: Middle Ordovician (471.8 - 460.9)
  Epoch: Late Ordovician   (460.9 - 443.7)
 

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