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(Subatlantic, Subboreal, Atlantic, Boreal and Preboreal are chrons, not Ages like Maastrichtian.)
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(Late, Middle and Early Pleistocene are sub-epochs, In English, the name of a stage is used with an ending in "ian" or "an". The age takes the same name as the corresponding stage.)
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|rowspan="4" style="background:#ffff62"| [[Pleistocene]]
 
|rowspan="4" style="background:#ffff62"| [[Pleistocene]]
| [[Late Pleistocene|Late]]/[[Tyrrhenian Stage]]/[[Eemian]]/[[Sangamonian Stage|Sangamonian]]
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| [[Late Pleistocene|Tarantian]]</br>([[Tyrrhenian Stage]]/[[Eemian]]/[[Sangamonian Stage|Sangamonian]])
 
|rowspan="4"| Flourishing and then extinction of many large [[mammal]]s ([[Pleistocene megafauna]]). Evolution of anatomically modern [[human]]s. [[Last glacial period|Quaternary Ice Age]] continues with [[glaciations]] and [[interstadial]]s (and the accompanying fluctuations from 100 to 300 ppmv in [[Earth's atmosphere|atmospheric]] CO<sub>2</sub> levels<ref name="atmospheric-carbon-dioxide" />), further intensification of [[Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth|Icehouse Earth]] conditions, roughly 1.6 [[Year#SI_prefix_multipliers|Ma]]. [[Last glacial maximum]] (30000 [[before present|years ago]]), [[last glacial period]] (18000&ndash;15000 years ago). Dawn of human [[Lower Paleolithic#Cultures|stone-age cultures]], with [[Middle Paleolithic#Cultures|increasing technical complexity]] relative to previous ice age cultures, such as [[Upper Paleolithic#Cultures|engravings and clay statues]] (e.g. [[Venus of Lespugue]]), particularly in the [[Mediterranean]] and Europe. [[Lake Toba]] [[supervolcano]] erupts 75000 years before present, causing a [[volcanic winter]] that [[Toba catastrophe theory|pushes humanity to the brink of extinction]].  Pleistocene ends with [[Oldest Dryas]], [[Older Dryas]]/[[Allerød Oscillation|Allerød]] and [[Younger Dryas]] climate events, with Younger Dryas forming the boundary with the Holocene.
 
|rowspan="4"| Flourishing and then extinction of many large [[mammal]]s ([[Pleistocene megafauna]]). Evolution of anatomically modern [[human]]s. [[Last glacial period|Quaternary Ice Age]] continues with [[glaciations]] and [[interstadial]]s (and the accompanying fluctuations from 100 to 300 ppmv in [[Earth's atmosphere|atmospheric]] CO<sub>2</sub> levels<ref name="atmospheric-carbon-dioxide" />), further intensification of [[Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth|Icehouse Earth]] conditions, roughly 1.6 [[Year#SI_prefix_multipliers|Ma]]. [[Last glacial maximum]] (30000 [[before present|years ago]]), [[last glacial period]] (18000&ndash;15000 years ago). Dawn of human [[Lower Paleolithic#Cultures|stone-age cultures]], with [[Middle Paleolithic#Cultures|increasing technical complexity]] relative to previous ice age cultures, such as [[Upper Paleolithic#Cultures|engravings and clay statues]] (e.g. [[Venus of Lespugue]]), particularly in the [[Mediterranean]] and Europe. [[Lake Toba]] [[supervolcano]] erupts 75000 years before present, causing a [[volcanic winter]] that [[Toba catastrophe theory|pushes humanity to the brink of extinction]].  Pleistocene ends with [[Oldest Dryas]], [[Older Dryas]]/[[Allerød Oscillation|Allerød]] and [[Younger Dryas]] climate events, with Younger Dryas forming the boundary with the Holocene.
 
|style="background:#ffff62"| 0.126&nbsp;±&nbsp;0.005<sup>*</sup>
 
|style="background:#ffff62"| 0.126&nbsp;±&nbsp;0.005<sup>*</sup>
 
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| [[Middle Pleistocene|Middle]]
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| [[Middle Pleistocene|Ionian]]
|style="background:#ffff62"| 0.500?
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|style="background:#ffff62"| 0.781&nbsp;±&nbsp;0.005<sup>*</sup>
 
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| [[Early Pleistocene|Early]]
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| [[Early Pleistocene|Calabrian]]
 
|style="background:#ffff62"| 1.806&nbsp;±&nbsp;0.005<sup>*</sup>
 
|style="background:#ffff62"| 1.806&nbsp;±&nbsp;0.005<sup>*</sup>
 
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