Emsian

Third and last stage and age of the Lower Devonian Series / Early Devonian Epoch

Placestage ageQ576789

Also known as Emsian Stage · Emsian Age

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The Emsian is one of three faunal stages in the Early Devonian Epoch. It lasted from 410.62 ±1.95 million years ago to 393.47 ±0.99 million years ago. It was preceded by the Pragian Stage and followed by the Eifelian Stage. It is named after the Ems river in Germany. The GSSP is located in the Zinzil'ban Gorge in the Kitab State Geological Reserve of Uzbekistan, 35 centimetres (14 in) above the contact with the Madmon Formation.

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Named after: Bad Ems
Follows: Pragian
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1.Stated in International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2013/01
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Followed by: Eifelian
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1.Stated in International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2013/01
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Part of: Early Devonian
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1.Stated in International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2013/01
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ICS Standard Global Chronostratigraphic (Geochronologic) Scale part of the series: age
SRGB color hex triplet: ECCF87
Started: 407600th millennium BCE
Ended: 393300th millennium BCE
Named by: Henry de Dorlodot(1900)
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1.biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/bulletin-de-la-societe-belge-de-geologie/014-1900/bsbg_14_1900_mem_p113-192.pdf
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Type locality (geology): GSSP for the base of the Emsian
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1.doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/1997/v20i4/005
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8 identifiers linking Emsian across the web's reference databases

39.2000, 67.3056OpenStreetMap ↗

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