The Chibanian, widely known as the Middle Pleistocene, is an age in the international geologic timescale or a stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period.[2] The Chibanian name was officially ratified in January 2020. It is currently estimated to span the time between 0.770 Ma (770,000 years ago) and 0.126 Ma (126,000 years ago), also expressed as 770–126 ka. It includes the transition in palaeoanthropology from the Lower to the Middle Paleolithic over 300 ka.
The Chibanian is preceded by the Calabrian and succeeded by the proposed Tarantian.[3] The beginning of the Chibanian is the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal, when the Earth's magnetic field last underwent reversal.[4] It ends with the onset of the Eemian interglacial period (Marine Isotope Stage 5).[5]
The term Middle Pleistocene was in use as a provisional or "quasi-formal" designation by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). While the three lowest ages of the Pleistocene, the Gelasian, Calabrian and Chibanian have been officially defined, the Late Pleistocene has yet to be formally defined, along with consideration of a proposed Anthropocene sub-division of the Holocene.[6]
Contents
1Definition process
2Climate
3Events
4Palaeoanthropology
5Chronology
6See also
7References
Definition process
The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) had previously proposed replacement of the Middle Pleistocene by an Ionian Age based on strata found in Italy. In November 2017, however, the Chibanian (based on strata at a site in Chiba Prefecture, Japan) replaced the Ionian as the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy's preferred GSSP proposal for the age that should replace the Middle Pleistocene sub-epoch.[7] The "Chibanian" name was ratified by the IUGS in January 2020.[2]
Climate
By early Middle Pleistocene, the Mid-Pleistocene Transition had changed the glacial cycles from an average 41,000 year periodicity present during most of the Early Pleistocene to a 100,000 year periodicity,[8] with the glacial cycles becoming asymmetric, having long glacial periods punctuated by short warm interglacial periods.[9]
Events
The Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary saw the migration of true horses out of North America and into Eurasia.[10] Also around this time, the European mammoth species Mammuthus meridionalis became extinct and was replaced by the Asian species Mammuthus trogontherii (the steppe mammoth). This was coincident with the migration of the elephant genus Palaeoloxodon out of Africa and into Eurasia, including the first appearance of species like the European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus).[11] With the extinction of Sinomastodon in East Asia at the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary, gomphotheres became completely extinct in Afro-Eurasia,[12][13] but continued to persist in the Americas into the Late Pleistocene.[13] There was a major extinction of carnivorous mammals in Europe around the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition, including the giant hyena Pachycrocuta.[14] The mid-late Middle Pleistocene saw the emergence of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), and its replacement of Mammuthus trogontherii, with the replacement of M. trogontherii in Europe by woolly mammoths being complete by around 200,000 years ago.[11][15] The last member of the notoungulate family Mesotheriidae, Mesotherium, has its last records around 220,000 years ago, leaving Toxodontidae as the sole family of notoungulates to persist into the Late Pleistocene.[16] During the late Middle Pleistocene, around 195,000-135,000 years ago, the steppe bison (the ancestor of the modern American bison) migrated across the Bering land bridge into North America, marking the beginning of the Rancholabrean faunal stage.[17] Around 500,000 years ago, the last members of the largely European aquatic frog genus Palaeobatrachus and by extension the family Palaeobatrachidae became extinct.[18]
Palaeoanthropology
The Chibanian includes the transition in palaeoanthropology from the Lower to the Middle Paleolithic: i.e., the emergence of Homo sapiens sapiens between 300 ka and 400 ka.[19] The oldest known human DNA dates to the Middle Pleistocene, around 430,000 years ago. This is the oldest found, (As of 2016).[20]
After analyzing 2,496 remains of Castor fiber (Eurasian beaver) and Trogontherium cuvieri found at Bilzingsleben in Germany, a team of scientists concluded that, around 400 ka, hominids in the area hunted and exploited beavers. They may have been targeted for their meat (based on cut marks on the bones) and skin.[21]
Chronology
Further information: Earth:Timeline of glaciation
Further information: Physics:Marine isotope stages and Earth:Last Glacial Period
Further information: Earth:Brunhes–Matuyama reversal
Age
paleoclimate
glaciation
palaeoanthropology
790–761 ka
MIS 19
Günz (Elbe) glaciation
Peking Man (Homo erectus)
761–712 ka
MIS 18
712–676 ka
MIS 17
676–621 ka
MIS 16
621–563 ka
MIS 15
Gunz-Haslach interglacial
Heidelberg Man (Homo heidelbergensis), Bodo cranium
Irhoud 1 (Homo sapiens); Middle Paleolithic; Haplogroup A (Y-DNA)
243–191 ka
MIS 7
Aveley Interglacial in Britain
Galilee Man; Haua Fteah
191–130 ka
MIS 6
Illinoian Stage
Herto Man (Homo sapiens); Macro-haplogroup L (mtDNA); Mousterian
130–123 ka
MIS 5e
peak of Eemian interglacial sub-stage, or Ipswichian in Britain
Klasies River Caves; Sangoan
See also
Mid-Pleistocene Transition
100,000-year problem
Pleistocene megafauna
References
↑"Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point". International Commission of Stratigraphy. https://stratigraphy.org/gssps/.
↑ 2.02.1Hornyak, Tim (30 January 2020). "Japan Puts Its Mark on Geologic Time with the Chibanian Age". Eos – Earth & Space Science News. American Geophysical Union. https://eos.org/articles/japan-puts-its-mark-on-geologic-time-with-the-chibanian-age.
↑Cohen, K. M.; Finney, S. C.; Gibbard, P. L.; Fan, J.-X. (January 2020). "International Chronostratigraphic Chart". International Commission on Stratigraphy. http://www.stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2020-01.pdf.
↑Gradstein, Felix M.; Ogg, James G.; Smith, Alan G., eds (2004). A Geological Time Scale 2004 (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 28. ISBN 9780521786737. https://archive.org/details/geologictimescal2004grad.
↑P. L. Gibbard (17 April 2015). "The Quaternary System/Period and its major sub-divisions". Russian Geology and Geophysics. Special Issue: Topical Problems of Stratigraphy and Evolution of the Biosphere (Elsevier BV) 56 (4): 686–688. doi:10.1016/j.rgg.2015.03.015. Bibcode: 2015RuGG...56..686G. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1068797115000747. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
↑"Japan-based name 'Chibanian' set to represent geologic age of last magnetic shift". The Japan Times. 14 November 2017. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/national/science-health/japan-based-name-chibanian-set-represent-geologic-age-last-magnetic-shift.
↑Berends, C. J.; Köhler, P.; Lourens, L. J.; van de Wal, R. S. W. (June 2021). "On the Cause of the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition" (in en). Reviews of Geophysics59 (2). doi:10.1029/2020RG000727. ISSN 8755-1209. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020RG000727.
↑Chalk, Thomas B.; Hain, Mathis P.; Foster, Gavin L.; Rohling, Eelco J.; Sexton, Philip F.; Badger, Marcus P. S.; Cherry, Soraya G.; Hasenfratz, Adam P. et al. (2017-12-12). "Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition" (in en). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences114 (50): 13114–13119. doi:10.1073/pnas.1702143114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 29180424. PMC 5740680. https://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1702143114.
↑Vershinina, Alisa O.; Heintzman, Peter D.; Froese, Duane G.; Zazula, Grant; Cassatt‐Johnstone, Molly; Dalén, Love; Der Sarkissian, Clio; Dunn, Shelby G. et al. (December 2021). "Ancient horse genomes reveal the timing and extent of dispersals across the Bering Land Bridge" (in en). Molecular Ecology30 (23): 6144–6161. doi:10.1111/mec.15977. ISSN 0962-1083. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.15977.
↑ 11.011.1Lister, Adrian M. (2004), "Ecological Interactions of Elephantids in Pleistocene Eurasia", Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor (Oxbow Books): pp. 53–60, ISBN 978-1-78570-965-4, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264788794, retrieved 2020-04-14
↑Wang, Yuan; Jin, Chang-zhu; Mead, Jim I. (August 2014). "New remains of Sinomastodon yangziensis (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) from Sanhe karst Cave, with discussion on the evolution of Pleistocene Sinomastodon in South China" (in en). Quaternary International339-340: 90–96. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.03.006. Bibcode: 2014QuInt.339...90W. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618213001390.
↑ 13.013.1Cantalapiedra, Juan L.; Sanisdro, Oscar L.; Zhang, Hanwen; Alberdi, Mª Teresa; Prado, Jose Luis; Blanco, Fernando; Saarinen, Juha (1 July 2021). "The rise and fall of proboscidean ecological diversity". Nature Ecology & Evolution355 (9): 1266–1272. doi:10.1038/s41559-021-01498-w. PMID 34211141. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01498-w. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
↑Palombo, Maria Rita; Sardella, Raffaele; Novelli, Micaela (March 2008). "Carnivora dispersal in Western Mediterranean during the last 2.6Ma" (in en). Quaternary International179 (1): 176–189. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.08.029. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618207002601.
↑Lister, Adrian M. (October 2022). "Mammoth evolution in the late Middle Pleistocene: The Mammuthus trogontherii-primigenius transition in Europe" (in en). Quaternary Science Reviews294: 107693. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107693. Bibcode: 2022QSRv..29407693L. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277379122003249.
↑Fernández-Monescillo, Marcos; Martínez, Gastón; García López, Daniel; Frechen, Manfred; Romero-Lebrón, Eugenia; Krapovickas, Jerónimo M.; Haro, J. Augusto; Rodríguez, Pablo E. et al. (February 2023). "The last record of the last typotherid (Notoungulata, Mesotheriidae, Mesotherium cristatum) for the middle Pleistocene of the western Pampean region, Córdoba Province, Argentina, and its biostratigraphic implications" (in en). Quaternary Science Reviews301: 107925. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107925. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S027737912200556X.
↑Froese, Duane; Stiller, Mathias; Heintzman, Peter D.; Reyes, Alberto V.; Zazula, Grant D.; Soares, André E. R.; Meyer, Matthias; Hall, Elizabeth et al. (2017-03-28). "Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America" (in en). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences114 (13): 3457–3462. doi:10.1073/pnas.1620754114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 28289222. Bibcode: 2017PNAS..114.3457F.
↑Wuttke, Michael; Přikryl, Tomáš; Ratnikov, Viacheslav Yu.; Dvořák, Zdeněk; Roček, Zbyněk (September 2012). "Generic diversity and distributional dynamics of the Palaeobatrachidae (Amphibia: Anura)" (in en). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments92 (3): 367–395. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0071-y. ISSN 1867-1594. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12549-012-0071-y.
↑D. Richter & others (8 June 2017). "The Age of Hominin Fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age". Nature546 (7657): 293–296. doi:10.1038/nature22335. PMID 28593967. Bibcode: 2017Natur.546..293R..
↑Crew, Bec (15 March 2016). "The Oldest Human Genome Ever Has Been Sequenced, And It Could Rewrite Our History". ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/the-oldest-human-genome-ever-has-been-sequenced-and-it-could-rewrite-human-history.
↑Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Sabine; Kindler, Lutz; Roebroeks, Wil (2023-11-13). "Beaver exploitation, 400,000 years ago, testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins" (in en). Scientific Reports13 (1): 19766. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-46956-6. ISSN 2045-2322. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46956-6.
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