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Time Line (NC)



Period          Epoch        Stage                 top of stage date (Ma)
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Cretaceous  Gulf (K2)     Maastrichtian    65
                                       Campanian        74
                                       Santonian          83
                                       Coniacian          86.6
                                       Turonian            88.5
                                       Cenomanian      90.4
          
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           Early Cretaceous Albian                97
             (K1)                    Aptian                112
                                       Barremian         124.5
                                       Hauterivian       131.8
                                       Valanginian       135
                                       Berriasian         140.7
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Jurassic    Malm            Tithonian           145.6
                   (J3)              Kimmeridgian   152.1
                                       Oxfordian          154.7
               
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                  Dogger         Callovian           157.1
                   (J2)              Bathonian          161.3
                                       Bajocian            166.1
                                       Aalenian             173.5
              
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                  Lias              Toarcian             178
                   (J1)              Pliensbachian    187
                                       Sinemurian         194.5
                                       Hettangian          203.5
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Triassic    Late Triassic Rhaetian             208
                     (Tr3)           Norian                 209.5
                                       Carnian               223.4
                 
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                 Mid Triassic  Ladinian              235
                     (Tr2)           Anisian                ?239.5
                 
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                  Scythian       Spathian              241.1
                     (Tr1)           Nammalian          ?
                                       Griesbachian       ?      
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Permian                                                      245 

Based on Harland et al. 1989 *A Geologic Time Scale*  p174-5
Neil Clark
Curator of Palaeontology
Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow
email: NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk

Some large dinosaurs had three horns and were called
triceps, others had two horns and were called biceps.
(Geological Howlers - ed. WDI Rolfe)