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- The Tournaisian is in the ICS geologic timescale the lowest stage or oldest age of the Mississippian, the oldest subsystem of the Carboniferous. The Tournaisian...
- divided into the Tournaisian and Viséan stages. The Silesian was divided into the Namurian, Westphalian and Stephanian stages. The Tournaisian is the same...
- Visean) Osagean (top of the Tournaisian and bottom of the Visean) Kinderhookian (the lower two-thirds of the Tournaisian) "International Chronostratigraphic...
- years of the Carboniferous, the early Mississippian (starting with the Tournaisian and moving into the Visean). The gap forms a discontinuity between the...
- from the last common ancestors of extant tetrapods) appeared by the Tournaisian age of the Early Carboniferous. The specific aquatic ancestors of the...
- Famennian (Famenne), Tournaisian (Tournai), Visean (Visé), Dinantian (Dinant), and Namurian (Namur)". Except for the Tournaisian, all these rocks are...
- the 'Strunian' (latest Famennian), and a small portion of the early Tournaisian. It is named after the Hangenberg Black Shale, a distinctive layer of...
- years ago. It was preceded by the Frasnian stage and followed by the Tournaisian stage. In the seas, a novel major group of ammonoid cephalopods called...
- Occidens is an extinct genus of stem tetrapod from the Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian) Altagoan Formation of Northern Ireland. It is known from a single type...
- Reesodus is an extinct genus of hybodontiform. It lived from the Tournaisian age of the Early Carboniferous to the Wordian age of the Permian, and remains...