Global chronostratigraphical correlation table for the last 2.7 million years v. 2016a -stages)

benthic δ18O records cores Vostok and Dome-C (EDC) Section Jingbian ChiLoPart time scale est European Stages 18 W American Stages normal reversed 78.47ºS 106.86ºE Magnetic susceptibility stack of 57 globally distributed Antarctic Isotope Record 37º40’54”N 53º41’48”N biozonation biozonation ItalianMediterranean Marine Stages Sea 75.10ºS 123.35ºE Coarse grained admixture 108º31’15”E BiogenicComposite Silica record Content collating108º21’06”E overlapping core segments System Series Subseries, ChronsStages Palaeomagnetic record Chinese Loess Sequence BDP-96-1 [4, 6, 7, 12-19, 22, 25-27, 29-33, 48-50]; Russian Plain StagesNorth New Zealand Stages Age Marine Isotope Stages Planktonic Foraminifera Calcareous Nannoplankton‘Standard Stages’ (supeAge r Lake Baikal Sequence BDP-96-2 [GC-1,1-49]; BDP-98 [4] North British Stages Age (Ma) Age Subchrons, (Ma) 18 -8 3 (Ma) (Ma) Excursion events Stage 5 4 Atlantic Indo-Pacific 1 0 Oatm.‰ -450 -400 0 SUS 10 m / kg 100 75% % weight D >63 µm 0% 0 10 20 30 40 50% 0 Holocene 0 0 0.5 km 0.5 km S0 depth composite 0.0117 L 0.041 Laschamp 2 Termination I - 14 ka down core depth section Valdaian a 1.0 km L1 Weichselian Devensian Wisconsinan 4 5a 1.0 km t S1

0.1 arantian 0.1 5 m_ 0.1 e | MD95-2042 Tyrrhenian Ipswichian Mikulinian 0.121 Blake 5e T Termination II - 130 ka NN21 CN15 CN15 2.0 km Warthe 6 2.0 km L2 Moscovian 14 m_ Drenthe ‘Tottenhill’ Haweran 0.188 Iceland Basin 0.2 0.2 7a 0.2 2.5 km Dnieper 0.2

0.211 ? LR04 stack S2 0.239 Pringle Falls 7e 8 Termination III - 243 ka PRZ 9a L3 Saalian 0.3 0.3 3.0 km 2.5 km Wacken olstonian pre-Illinoian A 0.3

9e S3 W M 10 / Dömnitz Termination IV - 337 ka PT1b NN20 b Fuhne 0.4 i 0.4 S4 0.4 12 11 3.3 km 20 m_ Holsteinian Hoxnian Likhvinian d Termination V - 424 ka 2.8 km L5 Elsterian Anglian Okian pre-Illinoian B

0.5 d Gt. truncatulinoides 0.5 IV 0.5 14 S5 0.541 Big Lost Termination VI - 533 ka Ionian l Brunhes 15a Glacial c pre-Illinoian C 0.6 0.6 0.590 CN14 0.6 3.0 km Interglacial III Cromerian Muchkapian 0.6 e 15e Neopleistocene 16 Termination VII - 621 ka L6 30 m_ Glacial b Donian pre-Illinoian D 0.685 a 0.7 17 0.7 3.1 km S6 Interglacial II Ilynian 0.7 18 IZ 68 m_ L7 S6’ Glacial a pre-Illinoian E 0.774 19 S7 B Pokrovian 0.8 20 0.8 3.2 km L8 M 0.8 Q P ‘Cromerian complex’ Interglacial I S8 Petropavlovian 0.885 Kamakitsura 22 40 m_ 0.9 u l 0.9 L9 Dorst pre-Illinoian F 0.9 0.932 Santa Rosa 24 S9 Leerdam a e 26 25 0.990 Castlecliffian 1.0 t i 1.0 28 1.0 1.0 Jaramillo S10 J Linge Bavelian 30 ISZ 1.071 31 S11 e s 50 m_ Bavel 1.1 32 1.1 S12 1.1 1.123 Punaruu Sicilian

34 Krinitisian Gd. fistulosus – Gt. truncatuloides r t L13 / Krinitsa Cobb Beestonian 1.2 n o 1.2 1.187 1.2 S13 1.2 1.208 Mountain 36 PT1a NN19 L14 140 m_ pre-Illinoian G 37 S14 1.255 Bjorn 38 a c S15 Menapian 40 1.3 r e 1.3 S16 1.3 42 b 60 m_ y n 44 S17 Emilian

1.4 1.4 1.4 S18 Eopleistocene 1.4 Calabrian e 46 Gd. fistulosus – Gt. tosaensis 48 CN13 S19 1.475 Gardar S20 1.5 1.5 Waalian 1.5 50 S21 52 S22 E 1.584 Gilsa 54 olucheevka T

1.6 1.6 70 m_ olucheevkian 1.6 T

S23 / a 56 1.7 r 1.7 1.7 58 Santernian Eburonian pre-Illinoian H S24 former former Matuyama formal base formal base l 60 Quaternary 1.780 GSSP 77 m_ 1.8 1.8 62 1.8 S25 pre-Illinoian I 1.8 1948-2009 1948-2009 y 64 63 1.80 Pastonian IZ a O Olduvai 68 1.9 IZ 1.9 1.9 1.925 70 S26 Pre-Pastonian pre-Illinoian J

72 / Baventian not named 2.0 2.0 74 2.0 2.0 L27 Nukumaruan 76 Bramertonian PL6 2.1 78 2.1 S27 / Antian 2.1 2.116 Khaprovian / Khapry 2.137 Réunion 80 S28 82 Thurnian elation scheme 2.2 2.2 84 2.2 S29 2.2

86 D. altispira – Gd. fistulosus NN18 d S30 2.3 88 Gt.pseudomiocenica – Gd.fistulosus 2.3 2.3 90 Late IZ S31 IZ erkhodon onostratigraphic cor r 92 Khaprovian Ludhamian V 2.4 2.4 94 2.4 L32 2.4 96 CN12 2009 IUGS-ICS 2009 IUGS-ICS 100 m_ 2.5 redefined redefined 98 2.5 Praetiglian 2.5 formal base formal base 100 PL5 S32 Quaternary Pleistocene pre-Illinoian K ecent alternative ch r

101 Gt. pseudomiocenica NN17 c 102 r Mangapanian GSSP – GSSP L33 M Pre-Ludhamian erkhodonian / 252 m_

2.595 103 V 2.6 104 2.58 2.6 G 2.6 G1 G2 Reuverian Neog. Plio. Piac. b ‘Red Clay’ G3 erkhod. D. altispira – Gt. miocenica Piac. Waltonian

D. altispira NN16 V 2.7 Gauss 2.7 2.7 2.738 Porcupine Major divisions Marine stage/zone divisions Antarctic Continental Asia Regional stage/substage divisions GSSP = Global Stratotype Section and Point GSSP = Global Stratotype Section and Point: position

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