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The Messinian is in the geologic timescale the last age or uppermost stage of the Miocene. It spans the time between 7.246 ± 0.005 Ma and 5.333 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago). It follows the Tortonian and is followed by the Zanclean, the first age of the Pliocene.
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age years ago stage ics zanclean first ma tortonian 12 salinity crisis base time 13 16 millions mediterranean neogene scale
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Messinian | Celestial body | Earth | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Chronological unit | Age | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Formerly part of | Tertiary Period/System | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Lower boundary definition | First regular occurrence of the Planktonic Foraminifer Globorotalia miotumida | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Lower boundary definition | FAD of the Haptophyte Amaurolithus delicatus | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Lower boundary GSSP | Oued Akrech section, Rabat, Morocco .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-par… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Lower GSSP ratified | January 2000 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Name formality | Formal | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Regional usage | Global (ICS) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Stratigraphic unit | Stage | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Time scale(s) used | ICS Time Scale | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Time span formality | Formal | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Upper boundary definition | Base of the Thvera magnetic event (C3n.4n), which is only 96 ka (5 precession cycles) younger than the GSSP | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Upper boundary GSSP | Heraclea Minoa section, Heraclea Minoa, Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, Italy 37°23′30″N 13°16′50″E / 37.3917°N 13.2806°E / 37.3917; 13.2806 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | Upper GSSP ratified | 2000 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Messinian | located in | a section at Oued Akrech | 0.90 | text |
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