Mammal Neogene zones

The '''Mammal Neogene zones''' or '''MN zones''' are system of biostratigraphic zones in the stratigraphic record used to correlate mammal-bearing fossil localities of the Neogene period of Europe. It consists of seventeen consecutive zones (numbered MN 1 through MN 18; MN 7 and 8 have been joined into MN 7/8 zone) defined through reference faunas, well-known sites that other localities can be correlated with. MN 1 is the earliest zone, and MN 18 is the most recent. The MN zones are complementary with the MP zones in the Paleogene.

The zones are as follows:<ref>{{cite web |title=Mammal Neogene Units |publisher=Paleobiology Database |url=http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=viewTimeScale&scale_no=109 |website=Paleobiology Database |access-date=17 December 2021}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" border="1" |- ! Interval ! Reference Locality<ref>{{Citation |last=Mein |first=P. |title=Updating of MN Zones |date=1990 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2513-8_6 |work=European Neogene Mammal Chronology |pages=73–90 |editor-last=Lindsay |editor-first=Everett H. |series=NATO ASI Series |place=Boston, MA |publisher=Springer US |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4899-2513-8_6 |isbn=978-1-4899-2513-8 |access-date=2021-06-02 |editor2-last=Fahlbusch |editor2-first=Volker |editor3-last=Mein |editor3-first=Pierre|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ! Start ! End ! ICS stages<ref>International Commission on Stratigraphy (2021.) - [https://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2021-10.pdf INTERNATIONAL CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC CHART]</ref> |- | MN 18 | | 2.0 Ma | 0 Ma | Gelasian to present |- | MN 17 | Saint-Vallier (France) | 2.5 Ma | 2.0 Ma | Gelasian |- | MN 16 | Arondelli / Triversa (Italy) | 3.2 Ma | 2.5 Ma | Gelasian - Piacenzian - Zanclean |- | MN 15 | Perpignan (France) | 4.2 Ma | 3.2 Ma | Zanclean |- | MN 14 | Podlesice (Poland) | 4.9 Ma | 4.2 Ma | Zanclean |- | MN 13 | El Arquilla (Spain) | 7.0 Ma (between 6.8 and 7.2 Ma) | 4.9 Ma | Zanclean - Messinian |- | MN 12 | Los Mansuetos (Spain) | 7.75 Ma (between 8.0 and 7.5 Ma) | 7.0 Ma (between 6.8 and 7.2 Ma) | Messinian - Tortonian |- | MN 11 | Crevillente 2 (Spain) | 8.7 Ma | 7.75 Ma (between 8.0 and 7.5 Ma) | Tortonian |- | MN 10 | Masia del Barbo (Spain) | 9.7 Ma | 8.7 Ma | Tortonian |- | MN 9 | Can Llobateres (Spain) | 11.1 Ma | 9.7 Ma | Tortonian |- | MN 7/8 | La Grive M (France) | 12.75 Ma (between 13.0 and 12.5 Ma) | 11.1 Ma | Tortonian - Serravallian |- | MN 6 | Sansan (France) | 13.7 Ma | 12.75 Ma (between 13.0 and 12.5 Ma) | Serravallian |- | MN 5 | Faluns Pont Levoy- Thenay (France) | 16.0 Ma | 13.7 Ma | Serravallian - Langhian - Burdigalian |- | MN 4 | La Romieu (France) | 16.9 Ma (between 16.6 and 17.2 Ma) | 16.0 Ma | Burdigalian |- | MN 3 | Wintershof-West (Germany) | 20.0 Ma | 16.9 Ma (between 16.6 and 17.2 Ma) | Burdigalian |- | MN 2 | * Montaigu (France) * Laugnac (France) | 22.4 Ma | 20.0 Ma | Burdigalian - Aquitanian |- | MN 1 | Paulhiac (France) | 23.03 ± 0.05 Ma<ref name=Schmidt-Kittler87>Norbert Schmidt-Kittler (ed.) "International symposium on mammalian biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the European Paleogene, Mainz, February 18th-21st 1987." Münchner geowiss. Abh., 10, 1-311.</ref><ref name="İslamoğlu">{{cite journal |last1=İslamoğlu|first1=Yeşim|last2=Harzhauser|first2=Mathias|last3=Gross|first3=Martin|last4=Jiménez-Moreno|first4=Gonzalo|last5=Čorić|first5=Stjepan|last6=Kroh|first6=Andreas|last7=Rögl|first7=Fred|last8=van der Made|first8=Jan|publisher=Springer |date=2006 |title=From Tethys to Eastern Paratethys: Oligocene depositional environments, paleoecology and paleobiogeography of the Thrace Basin (NW Turkey)|journal=International Journal of Earth Sciences|volume=99|issue=1|pages=183–200|doi=10.1007/s00531-008-0378-0|s2cid=54934222 }}</ref><ref name=Geodiversitas4213>{{Cite journal |author1=Floréal Solé |author2=Bernard Marandat |author3=Fabrice Lihoreau |year=2020 |title=The hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the French locality of Aumelas (Hérault), with possible new representatives from the late Ypresian |journal=Geodiversitas|volume=42|issue=13|pages=185–214|doi=10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a13|bibcode=2020Geodv..42..185S |s2cid=219585388 |doi-access=free }}</ref> | 22.4 Ma | Aquitanian |}

==References== * Bruijn, H. de, Daams, R., Daxner-Höck, G., Fahlbusch, V., Ginsburg, L., Mein, P. and Morales, J. (1992.) "Report of the RCMNS working group on fossil mammals", Reisensburg 1990. ''Newsletters on Stratigraphy'' 26(2–3):65–118. * Dam, J. A. van, Alcalá, L., Alonso Zarza, A., Calvo, J. P., Garcés, M. and Krijgsman, W. (2001.) "The Upper Miocene mammal record from the Teruel–Alfambra region (Spain). The MN system and continental stage/age concepts discussed." ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology'' 21(2):367–385. {{JSTOR|20061959}}.

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