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Torrejonian

Torrejonian

The Torrejonian North American Stage, on the geologic timescale, is a North American faunal stage within the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA). It occupies part of the Paleocene epoch, covering an estimated age of about 65.1 to 62.3 million years ago. It is roughly equivalent to the later part of the Danian global stage (Early Paleocene).

The Torrejonian is preceded by the Puercan and followed by the Tiffanian NALMA stages. The Torrejonian-Tiffanian boundary is often correlated with the Danian-Selandian boundary (on the global timescale), the - boundary (in Asian land mammal ages), and the C27n-C26r polarity chron boundary (on the geomagnetic polarity time scale).