Category:Messinian

**Messinian**
	sixth and last age of the Miocene epoch
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Instance of	stage; age;
Part of	Miocene (6); Late Miocene (2); ICS Standard Global Chronostratigraphic (Geochronologic) Scale (age);
Named after	Messina;
Start time	7,246th millennium BC;
End time	5,333rd millennium BC;
Significant event	Messinian salinity crisis;
Follows	Tortonian;
Followed by	Zanclean;
Partially coincident with	Q2103860; Turolian;
	33° 56′ 12.84″ N, 6° 48′ 45″ W
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	Q508465; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12215409d; BNCF Thesaurus ID: 48530
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Cenozoic era
Paleogene									Neogene									Quaternary
Paleocene			Eocene				Oligocene		Miocene							Pliocene		Pleistocene				Holocene			Anthropocene
Danian	Selandian	Thanetian	Ypresian	Lutetian	Bartonian	Priabonian	Rupelian	Chattian	Aquitanian	Burdigalian	Langhian	Barstovian (middle miocene)	Serravallian	Tortonian	Messinian	Zanclean (lower pliocene)	Piacenzian (upper pliocene)	Gelasian	Calabrian	Ionian	Tarantian	Greenlandian	Northgrippian	Meghalayan