• 责任者：Deng Tao (Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates ; Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Beijing 100044 ; China) ; Hou Sukuan
• 刊名：Journal of Stratigraphy
• 出版年：2011
• 卷期：35(3)
• 关键词：上新世 ; Pliocene ; 中国 ; China
• 页码：p.237-249
• 图表：4 illus., 66 refs.
• 分类号：1200
• 出版序号：1888
• issnNo：ISSN0253-4959
• isbnNo：CN32-1187/P

The chronostratigraphic unit, Mazegouan Stage, is one of the two stages of the Chinese Pliocene Series, representing the continental Upper Pliocene. The Mazegouan Stage is correlated to the marine Piacenzian Stage in the International Stratigraphical Chart, and they share the same definition of the lower boundary at the base of the paleomagnetic Chron C2An.3n, i.e., the base of the Gauss epoch, with an age of 3.6 Ma. The Mazegouan Age is correlated to the early Villanyian age or the early Villafranchian age of the European land mammal ages, and it includes a Neogene mammal faunal unit, i.e., NMU 13, corresponding to the European MN 16.The Mazegouan fauna from Yushe Basin belongs to NMU 13. The Huabaogou section of the Nihewan Basin in Hebei Province is a supplementary candidate stratotype of the Mazegouan Stage.