Tortonian Stage

Tortonian Stage

      division of middle Miocene (Miocene Epoch) rocks, representing all rocks deposited worldwide during the Tortonian Age (11.6 million to 7.2 million years ago) of the Neogene Period (the past 23 million years). The stage is named for exposures in the region of Tortona, in the Italian Piedmont. The Tortonian and the preceding Serravallian are sometimes treated as subdivisions of another stage, the Vindobonian, but they are sufficiently distinct to warrant different names.

      The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) defining the lower boundary of this stage, ratified by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) in 2003, is located in the Monte dei Corvi Beach section approximately 5 km (3 miles) southeast of Ancona, Italy. The lower boundary coincides with the last common occurrence of the calcareous nannofossil (remains of ocean-dwelling golden-brown algae composed of calcite platelets) Discoaster kugleri and the foraminiferan (pseudopod-using unicellular organism protected by a test or shell) Globigerinoides subquadratus. This upper boundary nearly matches the base of the zones of the foraminiferan Globorotalia miotumida and calcareous nannofossil Amaurolithus delicatus. The Tortonian Stage follows the Serravallian Stage and precedes the Messinian Stage.

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