Table 1. Summary of sampled North American Land Mammal Age (NALMA) subdivisions.
Epoch | NALMA subdivision | Age Range (Ma) | Midpoint Age (M) | Number of species | Number of fossil localities | Area (km2) |
Pleistocene | Rancholabrean | 0.25–0.011 | 0.1305 | 222 | 180 | 176615.9 |
Pliocene | Irvingtonian II | 0.85–0.25 | 0.55 | 189 | 94 | 144745.5 |
Pliocene | Irvingtonian I | 1.72–0.85 | 1.285 | 102 | 37 | 60361.4 |
Pliocene | Blancan V | 2.5–1.72 | 2.11 | 165 | 130 | 125042.6 |
Pliocene | Blancan III | 4.1–2.5 | 3.3 | 183 | 163 | 122839.5 |
Pliocene | Blancan I | 4.9–4.1 | 4.5 | 85 | 66 | 140433.4 |
Miocene | Early late Hemphillian | 6.7–5.9 | 6.3 | 68 | 46 | 20108.2 |
Miocene | Late early Hemphillian | 7.5–6.7 | 7.1 | 63 | 55 | 29446.7 |
Miocene | Early early Hemphillian | 9–7.5 | 8.25 | 65 | 47 | 31455.8 |
Miocene | Clarendonian | 12.5–9 | 10.75 | 104 | 90 | 36139.8 |
Miocene | Late Barstovian | 14.8–12.5 | 13.6 | 195 | 194 | 33789.1 |
Miocene | Early Barstovian | 15.9–14.8 | 15.5 | 150 | 168 | 51753.3 |
Miocene | Late Hemingfordian | 17.5–15.9 | 16.7 | 100 | 83 | 25478.4 |
Miocene | Early Hemingfordian | 18.8–17.5 | 18.15 | 107 | 105 | 45531.3 |
Miocene | Late late Arikareean | 19.5–18.8 | 19.15 | 108 | 123 | 38307.2 |
Oligocene/Miocene | Early late Arikareean | 23.8–19.5 | 21.65 | 71 | 67 | 37892.2 |
Oligocene | Late early Arikareean | 27.9–23.8 | 25.85 | 95 | 65 | 20927.8 |
Oligocene | Early early Arikareean | 30–27.9 | 28.95 | 116 | 124 | 15382.3 |
Oligocene | Late Orellan | 33.1–32 | 32.55 | 38 | 36 | 17725.7 |
Oligocene | Early Orellan | 33.7–33.1 | 33.4 | 88 | 130 | 5579.8 |
Eocene | Middle Chadronian | 35.7–34.7 | 35.3 | 88 | 37 | 10349.7 |