Episodes 2022; 45(4): 445-453

Published online December 1, 2022

https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2022/022008

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Ratification of Neogene subseries as formal units in international chronostratigraphy

Marie-Pierre Aubry^1*, Kenneth G. Miller¹, Elena Turco², José Abel Flores³, Andrey Gladenkov⁴, Patrick Grunert⁵, Frits Hilgen⁶, Hiroshi Nishi⁷, Ann Holbourn⁸, Wout Krijgsman⁹, Fabrizio Lirer¹⁰, Werner E. Piller¹¹, Frédéric Quillévéré¹², Isabella Raffi¹³, Marci Robinson¹⁴, Lorenzo Rook¹⁵, Jun Tian¹⁶, Maria Triantaphyllou¹⁷, Felipe Vallejo^3,18

¹ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08873, USA
² Dipartimento di Scienze chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 157/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
³ Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
⁴ Geological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevsky per., 7. Moscow 119017, Russia
⁵ University of Cologne, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, 50674 Cologne, Germany
⁶ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
⁷ Institute of Dinosaur Research, Fukui Prefectural University, Eiheijicho, Fukui, 910-1142, Japan
⁸ Institute of Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, D-24118 Kiel, Germany
⁹ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
¹⁰ Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, P. Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
¹¹ Institut für Erdwissenschaften, NAWI Graz Geocenter, Universität Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria
¹² Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, ENS de Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5276 LGL-TPE, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
¹³ Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Geologia (InGeo), Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, 66013 Chieti Scalo, Italy
¹⁴ U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA 20192, USA
¹⁵ Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 4-50121 Firenze, Italy
¹⁶ State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
¹⁷ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology & Geoenvironment, Athens, Greece
¹⁸ Instituto de Investigaciones en Estratigrafía (IIES), Universidad de Caldas, Calle 65 # 26-10, Manizales, Colombia

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