Cenomanian

The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale the oldest or earliest age of the Late
Cretaceous epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous series.[2] An age is a unit
of geochronology: it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the stratigraphic
column deposited during the corresponding age. Both age and stage bear the same name.
As a unit of geologic time measure, the Cenomanian age spans the time between[3] 100.5 ±
0.9 Ma and 93.9 ± 0.8 Ma (million years ago). In the geologic timescale it is preceded by
the Albian and is followed by the Turonian. The Upper Cenomanian starts approximately at
95 M.a.
The Cenomanian is coeval with the Woodbinian of the regional timescale of the Gulf of
Mexico and the early part of the Eaglefordian of the regional timescale of the East Coast of
the United States.
At the end of the Cenomanian an anoxic event took place, called the Cenomanian-Turonian
boundary event or the "Bonarelli Event", that is associated with a minor extinction event for
marine species.

System/ Series/ Stage/

Age (Ma)
Period Epoch Age
Paleogene Paleocene Danian younger

Maastrichtian 66.0 72.1

Campanian 72.1 83.6

Upper/ Santonian 83.6 86.3

Late Coniacian 86.3 89.8
Turonian 89.8 93.9
Cenomanian 93.9 100.5
Cretaceous
Albian 100.5 ~113.0
Aptian ~113.0 ~125.0

Lower/ Barremian ~125.0 ~129.4

Early Hauterivian ~129.4 ~132.9
Valanginian ~132.9 ~139.8
Berriasian ~139.8 ~145.0
Upper/
Jurassic Tithonian older
Late

Subdivision of the Cretaceous system

according to the ICS, as of 2017.[1]