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Pleistocene epoch
General
Lower boundary: 1.81 Ma
Lower boundary source: direct
Upper boundary: 0.011 Ma
Upper boundary source: direct
Continent: global
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Correlations
Period:
Neogene
10 million year bin: Cenozoic 6
Previous interval
Pliocene
Next interval
Holocene
Overlaps with
Uquian
Contains
Calabrian
(shares lower boundary)
Late/Upper Pleistocene
(shares upper boundary)
Middle Pleistocene
Early/Lower Pleistocene
(shares lower boundary)
Appears in scales
Gradstein 5: Epochs
(2004)
Harland 4: Epochs
(1990)
Interval name:
Late/Upper
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middle Late
early Late
Middle
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middle Middle
early Middle
Early/Lower
late Early
middle Early
early Early