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The '''Chibanian''', widely known as the '''Middle Pleistocene''', is an [[Age (geology)|age]] in the international [[geologic timescale]] or a [[Stage (stratigraphy)|stage]] in [[chronostratigraphy]], being a division of the [[Pleistocene]] Epoch within the ongoing [[Quaternary]] Period.<ref name="Eos_30Jan20">{{cite web |url=https://eos.org/articles/japan-puts-its-mark-on-geologic-time-with-the-chibanian-age |title=Japan Puts Its Mark on Geologic Time with the Chibanian Age |publisher=[[American Geophysical Union]] |work=Eos – Earth & Space Science News |date=30 January 2020 |access-date=31 January 2020 |author=Hornyak, Tim}}</ref> The Chibanian name was officially ratified in January 2020. It is currently estimated to span the time between 0.770 [[annum|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 Paleolithic|Lower]] to the [[Middle Paleolithic]] over 300 ka.


[[File:Chibanian Strata Stake.jpg|thumb|right|290px|The Chibanian stratum, which dates back to the Chiba period, is located along the Yoro River in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture. At the bottom left is a golden spike that marks the boundary between eras. The color-coded stakes on the right mark the boundaries of geological formations, indicating that the Earth's magnetic field was reversing.]]
The Chibanian is preceded by the [[Calabrian (stage)|Calabrian]] and succeeded by the proposed [[Tarantian]].<ref name="ICC2">{{cite web |url=http://www.stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2020-01.pdf |title=International Chronostratigraphic Chart |publisher=International Commission on Stratigraphy |last1=Cohen |first1=K. M. |last2=Finney |first2=S. C. |last3=Gibbard |first3=P. L. |last4=Fan |first4=J.-X. |date=January 2020 |access-date=23 February 2020}}</ref> The beginning of the Chibanian is the [[Brunhes–Matuyama reversal]], when the Earth's magnetic field last underwent reversal.<ref>{{cite book |editor2-last=Ogg |editor2-first=James G. |editor3-last=Smith |editor3-first=Alan G. |editor-last=Gradstein |editor-first=Felix M. |title=A Geological Time Scale 2004 |url=https://archive.org/details/geologictimescal2004grad |url-access=limited |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780521786737 |page=[https://archive.org/details/geologictimescal2004grad/page/n49 28] |edition=3rd}}</ref> It ends with the onset of the [[Eemian]] interglacial period ([[Marine Isotope Stage 5]]).<ref name="Eemian">{{cite journal |title=Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core |journal=Nature |volume=493 |issue=7433 |pages=489–494 |year=2013 |author=D. Dahl-Jensen & others |bibcode=2013Natur.493..489N |url=http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/500331/1/2012-07-09846-NEEM_revised.pdf |doi=10.1038/nature11789 |pmid=23344358|s2cid=4420908}}</ref>


The '''Chibanian''', more widely known as the '''Middle Pleistocene''' (its previous informal name), is an [[Age (geology)|age]] in the international [[geologic timescale]] or a [[Stage (stratigraphy)|stage]] in [[chronostratigraphy]], being a division of the [[Pleistocene]] Epoch within the ongoing [[Quaternary]] Period.<ref name="Eos_30Jan20">{{cite web |url=https://eos.org/articles/japan-puts-its-mark-on-geologic-time-with-the-chibanian-age |title=Japan Puts Its Mark on Geologic Time with the Chibanian Age |publisher=[[American Geophysical Union]] |work=Eos – Earth & Space Science News |date=30 January 2020 |access-date=31 January 2020 |author=Hornyak, Tim}}</ref> The Chibanian name was officially ratified in January 2020. It is currently estimated to span the time between 0.770 [[annum|Ma]] (770,000 years ago) and 0.129 Ma (129,000 years ago), also expressed as 770–126 ka. It includes the transition in [[palaeoanthropology]] from the [[Lower Paleolithic|Lower]] to the [[Middle Paleolithic]] over 300 ka.
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]].<ref name="Gibbard">{{cite journal |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1068797115000747 |title=The Quaternary System/Period and its major sub-divisions |author=P. L. Gibbard |journal=Russian Geology and Geophysics |publisher=Elsevier BV |series=Special Issue: Topical Problems of Stratigraphy and Evolution of the Biosphere |volume=56 |issue=4 |pages=686–688 |date=17 April 2015 |doi=10.1016/j.rgg.2015.03.015 |bibcode=2015RuGG...56..686G |access-date=13 November 2019}}</ref>

The Chibanian is preceded by the [[Calabrian (stage)|Calabrian]] and succeeded by the proposed [[Tarantian]].<ref name="ICC2">{{cite web |url=http://www.stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2020-01.pdf |title=International Chronostratigraphic Chart |publisher=International Commission on Stratigraphy |last1=Cohen |first1=K. M. |last2=Finney |first2=S. C. |last3=Gibbard |first3=P. L. |last4=Fan |first4=J.-X. |date=January 2020 |access-date=23 February 2020}}</ref> The beginning of the Chibanian is the [[Brunhes–Matuyama reversal]], when the Earth's magnetic field last underwent reversal.<ref>{{cite book |editor2-last=Ogg |editor2-first=James G. |editor3-last=Smith |editor3-first=Alan G. |editor-last=Gradstein |editor-first=Felix M. |title=A Geological Time Scale 2004 |url=https://archive.org/details/geologictimescal2004grad |url-access=limited |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780521786737 |page=[https://archive.org/details/geologictimescal2004grad/page/n49 28] |edition=3rd}}</ref> Its end roughly coincides with the termination of the [[Penultimate Glacial Period]] and the onset of the [[Last Interglacial]] period (corresponding to the beginning of [[Marine Isotope Stage 5]]).<ref name="Eemian">{{cite journal |title=Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core |journal=Nature |volume=493 |issue=7433 |pages=489–494 |year=2013 |author=D. Dahl-Jensen & others |bibcode=2013Natur.493..489N |url=http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/500331/1/2012-07-09846-NEEM_revised.pdf |doi=10.1038/nature11789 |pmid=23344358|s2cid=4420908}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Gibbard">{{cite journal |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1068797115000747 |title=The Quaternary System/Period and its major sub-divisions |author=P. L. Gibbard |journal=Russian Geology and Geophysics |publisher=Elsevier BV |series=Special Issue: Topical Problems of Stratigraphy and Evolution of the Biosphere |volume=56 |issue=4 |pages=686–688 |date=17 April 2015 |doi=10.1016/j.rgg.2015.03.015 |bibcode=2015RuGG...56..686G |access-date=13 November 2019}}</ref>


==Definition process==
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== Climate ==
== Climate ==
By early Middle Pleistocene, the [[Mid-Pleistocene Transition]] had changed the [[glacial cycle]]s from an average 41,000 year [[Periodic function|periodicity]] present during most of the Early Pleistocene to a 100,000 year periodicity,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Berends |first=C. J. |last2=Köhler |first2=P. |last3=Lourens |first3=L. J. |last4=van de Wal |first4=R. S. W. |date=June 2021 |title=On the Cause of the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition |url=https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020RG000727 |journal=Reviews of Geophysics |language=en |volume=59 |issue=2 |doi=10.1029/2020RG000727 |issn=8755-1209}}</ref> with the glacial cycles becoming asymmetric, having long [[glacial periods]] punctuated by short warm [[interglacial]] periods.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chalk |first=Thomas B. |last2=Hain |first2=Mathis P. |last3=Foster |first3=Gavin L. |last4=Rohling |first4=Eelco J. |last5=Sexton |first5=Philip F. |last6=Badger |first6=Marcus P. S. |last7=Cherry |first7=Soraya G. |last8=Hasenfratz |first8=Adam P. |last9=Haug |first9=Gerald H. |last10=Jaccard |first10=Samuel L. |last11=Martínez-García |first11=Alfredo |last12=Pälike |first12=Heiko |last13=Pancost |first13=Richard D. |last14=Wilson |first14=Paul A. |date=2017-12-12 |title=Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition |url=https://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1702143114 |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=114 |issue=50 |pages=13114–13119 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1702143114 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=5740680 |pmid=29180424}}</ref> Millennial-scale climatic variability continued to be highly sensitive to precession and obliquity cycles.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sun |first=Youbin |last2=McManus |first2=Jerry F. |last3=Clemens |first3=Steven C. |last4=Zhang |first4=Xu |last5=Vogel |first5=Hendrik |last6=Hodell |first6=David A. |last7=Guo |first7=Fei |last8=Wang |first8=Ting |last9=Liu |first9=Xingxing |last10=An |first10=Zhisheng |date=1 November 2021 |title=Persistent orbital influence on millennial climate variability through the Pleistocene |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00794-1 |journal=[[Nature Geoscience]] |language=en |volume=14 |issue=11 |pages=812–818 |doi=10.1038/s41561-021-00794-1 |issn=1752-0908 |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref>
By early Middle Pleistocene, the [[Mid-Pleistocene Transition]] had changed the [[glacial cycle]]s from an average 41,000 year [[Periodic function|periodicity]] present during most of the Early Pleistocene to a 100,000 year periodicity,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Berends |first1=C. J. |last2=Köhler |first2=P. |last3=Lourens |first3=L. J. |last4=van de Wal |first4=R. S. W. |date=June 2021 |title=On the Cause of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition |url=https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020RG000727 |journal=Reviews of Geophysics |language=en |volume=59 |issue=2 |doi=10.1029/2020RG000727 |bibcode=2021RvGeo..5900727B |hdl=1874/412413 |s2cid=236386405 |issn=8755-1209|hdl-access=free }}</ref> with the glacial cycles becoming asymmetric, having long [[glacial periods]] punctuated by short warm [[interglacial]] periods.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Chalk |first1=Thomas B. |last2=Hain |first2=Mathis P. |last3=Foster |first3=Gavin L. |last4=Rohling |first4=Eelco J. |last5=Sexton |first5=Philip F. |last6=Badger |first6=Marcus P. S. |last7=Cherry |first7=Soraya G. |last8=Hasenfratz |first8=Adam P. |last9=Haug |first9=Gerald H. |last10=Jaccard |first10=Samuel L. |last11=Martínez-García |first11=Alfredo |last12=Pälike |first12=Heiko |last13=Pancost |first13=Richard D. |last14=Wilson |first14=Paul A. |date=2017-12-12 |title=Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=114 |issue=50 |pages=13114–13119 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1702143114 |doi-access=free |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=5740680 |pmid=29180424|bibcode=2017PNAS..11413114C }}</ref> Millennial-scale climatic variability continued to be highly sensitive to precession and obliquity cycles.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sun |first1=Youbin |last2=McManus |first2=Jerry F. |last3=Clemens |first3=Steven C. |last4=Zhang |first4=Xu |last5=Vogel |first5=Hendrik |last6=Hodell |first6=David A. |last7=Guo |first7=Fei |last8=Wang |first8=Ting |last9=Liu |first9=Xingxing |last10=An |first10=Zhisheng |date=1 November 2021 |title=Persistent orbital influence on millennial climate variability through the Pleistocene |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00794-1 |journal=[[Nature Geoscience]] |language=en |volume=14 |issue=11 |pages=812–818 |doi=10.1038/s41561-021-00794-1 |bibcode=2021NatGe..14..812S |s2cid=240358493 |issn=1752-0908 |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref>

In central Italy, the climate became noticeably more arid from 600 ka to 400 ka.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zanazzi |first1=Alessandro |last2=Fletcher |first2=Andrew |last3=Peretto |first3=Carlo |last4=Thun Hohenstein |first4=Ursula |date=10 May 2022 |title=Middle Pleistocene paleoclimate and paleoenvironment of central Italy and their relationship with hominin migrations and evolution |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618222000118 |journal=[[Quaternary International]] |language=en |volume=619 |pages=12–29 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2022.01.011 |bibcode=2022QuInt.619...12Z |access-date=29 October 2024 |via=Elsevier Science Direct|hdl=11392/2477437 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

The late Middle Pleistocene was a time of regional aridification in the [[Levant]], with a shallow lake covering what is now the Shishan Marsh drying and developing into a marsh.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Boyd |first1=Kelsey C. |last2=Ames |first2=Christopher J.H. |last3=Cordova |first3=Carlos E. |date=1 June 2022 |title=The Middle to Late Pleistocene transition in the Azraq Oasis, Jordan: A phytolith-based reconstruction of wetland palaeoecology |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0031018222001377 |journal=[[Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology]] |language=en |volume=595 |pages=110967 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110967 |bibcode=2022PPP...59510967B |access-date=4 July 2024 |via=Elsevier Science Direct}}</ref>

Eastern Africa's hydroclimate was governed primarily by orbital precession, although modulated significantly by the 100 kyr eccentricity cycle.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lupien |first1=Rachel L. |last2=Russell |first2=James M. |last3=Pearson |first3=Emma J. |last4=Castañeda |first4=Isla S. |last5=Asrat |first5=Asfawossen |last6=Foerster |first6=Verena |last7=Lamb |first7=Henry F. |last8=Roberts |first8=Helen M. |last9=Schäbitz |first9=Frank |last10=Trauth |first10=Martin H. |last11=Beck |first11=Catherine C. |last12=Feibel |first12=Craig S. |last13=Cohen |first13=Andrew S. |date=24 February 2022 |title=Orbital controls on eastern African hydroclimate in the Pleistocene |journal=[[Scientific Reports]] |language=en |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=3170 |doi=10.1038/s41598-022-06826-z |pmid=35210479 |issn=2045-2322 |pmc=8873222 |bibcode=2022NatSR..12.3170L }}</ref>

Along the northwestern Australian coast, the intensification of the [[Leeuwin Current]] resulted in an expansion of [[Reef|reefs]] coincident with the [[Great Barrier Reef|Great Barrier Reef's]] formation.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gallagher |first1=Stephen J. |last2=Wallace |first2=Malcolm W. |last3=Hoiles |first3=Peter W. |last4=Southwood |first4=John M. |date=November 2014 |title=Seismic and stratigraphic evidence for reef expansion and onset of aridity on the Northwest Shelf of Australia during the Pleistocene |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0264817214002189 |journal=[[Marine and Petroleum Geology]] |language=en |volume=57 |pages=470–481 |doi=10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.06.011 |bibcode=2014MarPG..57..470G |access-date=23 June 2024 |via=Elsevier Science Direct|hdl=11343/52678 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>


== Events ==
== Events ==
The Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary saw the migration of true horses out of North America and into Eurasia.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vershinina |first=Alisa O. |last2=Heintzman |first2=Peter D. |last3=Froese |first3=Duane G. |last4=Zazula |first4=Grant |last5=Cassatt‐Johnstone |first5=Molly |last6=Dalén |first6=Love |last7=Der Sarkissian |first7=Clio |last8=Dunn |first8=Shelby G. |last9=Ermini |first9=Luca |last10=Gamba |first10=Cristina |last11=Groves |first11=Pamela |last12=Kapp |first12=Joshua D. |last13=Mann |first13=Daniel H. |last14=Seguin‐Orlando |first14=Andaine |last15=Southon |first15=John |date=December 2021 |title=Ancient horse genomes reveal the timing and extent of dispersals across the Bering Land Bridge |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.15977 |journal=Molecular Ecology |language=en |volume=30 |issue=23 |pages=6144–6161 |doi=10.1111/mec.15977 |issn=0962-1083|hdl=10995/118212 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> 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'').<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Lister |first=Adrian M. |title=Ecological Interactions of Elephantids in Pleistocene Eurasia |date=2004 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264788794 |work=Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor |pages=53–60 |access-date=2020-04-14 |publisher=Oxbow Books |isbn=978-1-78570-965-4}}</ref> With the extinction of ''[[Sinomastodon]]'' in East Asia at the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary, [[Gomphothere|gomphotheres]] became completely extinct in Afro-Eurasia,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Yuan |last2=Jin |first2=Chang-zhu |last3=Mead |first3=Jim I. |date=August 2014 |title=New remains of Sinomastodon yangziensis (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) from Sanhe karst Cave, with discussion on the evolution of Pleistocene Sinomastodon in South China |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618213001390 |journal=Quaternary International |language=en |volume=339-340 |pages=90–96 |bibcode=2014QuInt.339...90W |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2013.03.006}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{cite journal |last1=Cantalapiedra |first1=Juan L. |last2=Sanisdro |first2=Oscar L. |last3=Zhang |first3=Hanwen |last4=Alberdi |first4=Mª Teresa |last5=Prado |first5=Jose Luis |last6=Blanco |first6=Fernando |last7=Saarinen |first7=Juha |date=1 July 2021 |title=The rise and fall of proboscidean ecological diversity |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01498-w |journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=355 |issue=9 |pages=1266–1272 |doi=10.1038/s41559-021-01498-w |pmid=34211141 |s2cid=235712060 |via=Escience.magazine.org |accessdate=21 August 2021}}</ref> but continued to persist in the Americas into the Late Pleistocene.<ref name=":22" /> There was a major extinction of carnivorous mammals in Europe around the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition, including the giant hyena ''[[Pachycrocuta]].''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Palombo |first=Maria Rita |last2=Sardella |first2=Raffaele |last3=Novelli |first3=Micaela |date=March 2008 |title=Carnivora dispersal in Western Mediterranean during the last 2.6Ma |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618207002601 |journal=Quaternary International |language=en |volume=179 |issue=1 |pages=176–189 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2007.08.029}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Lister |first=Adrian M. |date=October 2022 |title=Mammoth evolution in the late Middle Pleistocene: The Mammuthus trogontherii-primigenius transition in Europe |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277379122003249 |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=294 |pages=107693 |bibcode=2022QSRv..29407693L |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107693 |s2cid=252264887}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fernández-Monescillo |first=Marcos |last2=Martínez |first2=Gastón |last3=García López |first3=Daniel |last4=Frechen |first4=Manfred |last5=Romero-Lebrón |first5=Eugenia |last6=Krapovickas |first6=Jerónimo M. |last7=Haro |first7=J. Augusto |last8=Rodríguez |first8=Pablo E. |last9=Rouzaut |first9=Sabrina |last10=Tauber |first10=Adan A. |date=February 2023 |title=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 |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S027737912200556X |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=301 |pages=107925 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107925}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last1=Froese |first1=Duane |last2=Stiller |first2=Mathias |last3=Heintzman |first3=Peter D. |last4=Reyes |first4=Alberto V. |last5=Zazula |first5=Grant D. |last6=Soares |first6=André E. R. |last7=Meyer |first7=Matthias |last8=Hall |first8=Elizabeth |last9=Jensen |first9=Britta J. L. |last10=Arnold |first10=Lee J. |last11=MacPhee |first11=Ross D. E. |date=2017-03-28 |title=Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=114 |issue=13 |pages=3457–3462 |bibcode=2017PNAS..114.3457F |doi=10.1073/pnas.1620754114 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=5380047 |pmid=28289222 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Around 500,000 years ago, the last members of the largely European aquatic frog genus ''[[Palaeobatrachus]]'' and by extension the family [[Palaeobatrachidae]] became extinct.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wuttke |first=Michael |last2=Přikryl |first2=Tomáš |last3=Ratnikov |first3=Viacheslav Yu. |last4=Dvořák |first4=Zdeněk |last5=Roček |first5=Zbyněk |date=September 2012 |title=Generic diversity and distributional dynamics of the Palaeobatrachidae (Amphibia: Anura) |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12549-012-0071-y |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |language=en |volume=92 |issue=3 |pages=367–395 |doi=10.1007/s12549-012-0071-y |issn=1867-1594}}</ref>
The Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary saw the migration of true horses out of North America and into Eurasia.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Vershinina |first1=Alisa O. |last2=Heintzman |first2=Peter D. |last3=Froese |first3=Duane G. |last4=Zazula |first4=Grant |last5=Cassatt-Johnstone |first5=Molly |last6=Dalén |first6=Love |last7=Der Sarkissian |first7=Clio |last8=Dunn |first8=Shelby G. |last9=Ermini |first9=Luca |last10=Gamba |first10=Cristina |last11=Groves |first11=Pamela |last12=Kapp |first12=Joshua D. |last13=Mann |first13=Daniel H. |last14=Seguin-Orlando |first14=Andaine |last15=Southon |first15=John |date=December 2021 |title=Ancient horse genomes reveal the timing and extent of dispersals across the Bering Land Bridge |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.15977 |journal=Molecular Ecology |language=en |volume=30 |issue=23 |pages=6144–6161 |doi=10.1111/mec.15977 |pmid=33971056 |bibcode=2021MolEc..30.6144V |issn=0962-1083|hdl=10995/118212 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> 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'').<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Lister |first=Adrian M. |title=Ecological Interactions of Elephantids in Pleistocene Eurasia |date=2004 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264788794 |work=Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor |pages=53–60 |access-date=2020-04-14 |publisher=Oxbow Books |isbn=978-1-78570-965-4}}</ref> With the extinction of ''[[Sinomastodon]]'' in East Asia at the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary, [[Gomphothere|gomphotheres]] became completely extinct in Afro-Eurasia,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Yuan |last2=Jin |first2=Chang-zhu |last3=Mead |first3=Jim I. |date=August 2014 |title=New remains of Sinomastodon yangziensis (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) from Sanhe karst Cave, with discussion on the evolution of Pleistocene Sinomastodon in South China |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618213001390 |journal=Quaternary International |language=en |volume=339-340 |pages=90–96 |bibcode=2014QuInt.339...90W |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2013.03.006}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{cite journal |last1=Cantalapiedra |first1=Juan L. |last2=Sanisdro |first2=Oscar L. |last3=Zhang |first3=Hanwen |last4=Alberdi |first4=Mª Teresa |last5=Prado |first5=Jose Luis |last6=Blanco |first6=Fernando |last7=Saarinen |first7=Juha |date=1 July 2021 |title=The rise and fall of proboscidean ecological diversity |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01498-w |journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=355 |issue=9 |pages=1266–1272 |doi=10.1038/s41559-021-01498-w |pmid=34211141 |bibcode=2021NatEE...5.1266C |s2cid=235712060 |via=Escience.magazine.org |accessdate=21 August 2021}}</ref> but continued to persist in the Americas into the Late Pleistocene.<ref name=":22" /> There was a major extinction of carnivorous mammals in Europe around the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition, including the giant hyena ''[[Pachycrocuta]].''<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Palombo |first1=Maria Rita |last2=Sardella |first2=Raffaele |last3=Novelli |first3=Micaela |date=March 2008 |title=Carnivora dispersal in Western Mediterranean during the last 2.6Ma |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618207002601 |journal=Quaternary International |language=en |volume=179 |issue=1 |pages=176–189 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2007.08.029|bibcode=2008QuInt.179..176P }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Lister |first=Adrian M. |date=October 2022 |title=Mammoth evolution in the late Middle Pleistocene: The Mammuthus trogontherii-primigenius transition in Europe |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277379122003249 |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=294 |pages=107693 |bibcode=2022QSRv..29407693L |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107693 |s2cid=252264887}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fernández-Monescillo |first1=Marcos |last2=Martínez |first2=Gastón |last3=García López |first3=Daniel |last4=Frechen |first4=Manfred |last5=Romero-Lebrón |first5=Eugenia |last6=Krapovickas |first6=Jerónimo M. |last7=Haro |first7=J. Augusto |last8=Rodríguez |first8=Pablo E. |last9=Rouzaut |first9=Sabrina |last10=Tauber |first10=Adan A. |date=February 2023 |title=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 |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S027737912200556X |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=301 |pages=107925 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107925|bibcode=2023QSRv..30107925F |s2cid=254913691 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last1=Froese |first1=Duane |last2=Stiller |first2=Mathias |last3=Heintzman |first3=Peter D. |last4=Reyes |first4=Alberto V. |last5=Zazula |first5=Grant D. |last6=Soares |first6=André E. R. |last7=Meyer |first7=Matthias |last8=Hall |first8=Elizabeth |last9=Jensen |first9=Britta J. L. |last10=Arnold |first10=Lee J. |last11=MacPhee |first11=Ross D. E. |date=2017-03-28 |title=Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=114 |issue=13 |pages=3457–3462 |bibcode=2017PNAS..114.3457F |doi=10.1073/pnas.1620754114 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=5380047 |pmid=28289222 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Around 500,000 years ago, the last members of the largely European aquatic frog genus ''[[Palaeobatrachus]]'' and by extension the family [[Palaeobatrachidae]] became extinct.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wuttke |first1=Michael |last2=Přikryl |first2=Tomáš |last3=Ratnikov |first3=Viacheslav Yu. |last4=Dvořák |first4=Zdeněk |last5=Roček |first5=Zbyněk |date=September 2012 |title=Generic diversity and distributional dynamics of the Palaeobatrachidae (Amphibia: Anura) |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12549-012-0071-y |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |language=en |volume=92 |issue=3 |pages=367–395 |doi=10.1007/s12549-012-0071-y |bibcode=2012PdPe...92..367W |s2cid=130080167 |issn=1867-1594}}</ref>


==Palaeoanthropology==
==Palaeoanthropology==
The Chibanian includes the transition in [[palaeoanthropology]] from the [[Lower Paleolithic|Lower]] to the [[Middle Paleolithic]]: i.e., the emergence of ''[[Homo sapiens sapiens]]'' between 300 ka and 400 ka.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Age of Hominin Fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age |journal=Nature |volume=546 |issue=7657 |pages=293–296 |date=8 June 2017 |author=D. Richter & others|doi=10.1038/nature22335 |pmid=28593967 |bibcode=2017Natur.546..293R |s2cid=205255853}}.</ref> The oldest known human [[DNA]] dates to the Middle Pleistocene, around 430,000 years ago. This is the oldest found, {{As of|2016|lc=y}}.<ref name="DNA">{{cite news |url=https://www.sciencealert.com/the-oldest-human-genome-ever-has-been-sequenced-and-it-could-rewrite-human-history |last=Crew |first=Bec |title=The Oldest Human Genome Ever Has Been Sequenced, And It Could Rewrite Our History |work=ScienceAlert |date=15 March 2016 |access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref>
The Chibanian includes the transition in [[palaeoanthropology]] from the [[Lower Paleolithic|Lower]] to the [[Middle Paleolithic]]: i.e., the emergence of ''[[Homo sapiens sapiens]]'' between 300 ka and 400 ka.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Age of Hominin Fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age |journal=Nature |volume=546 |issue=7657 |pages=293–296 |date=8 June 2017 |author=D. Richter & others|doi=10.1038/nature22335 |pmid=28593967 |bibcode=2017Natur.546..293R |s2cid=205255853}}.</ref> The oldest known human [[DNA]] dates to the Middle Pleistocene, around 430,000 years ago. This is the oldest found, {{As of|2016|lc=y}}.<ref name="DNA">{{cite news |url=https://www.sciencealert.com/the-oldest-human-genome-ever-has-been-sequenced-and-it-could-rewrite-human-history |last=Crew |first=Bec |title=The Oldest Human Genome Ever Has Been Sequenced, And It Could Rewrite Our History |work=ScienceAlert |date=15 March 2016 |access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref>


After analyzing 2,496 remains of [[Eurasian beaver|Castor fiber]] (Eurasian beaver) and [[Trogontherium|Trogontherium cuvieri]] found at Bilzingsleben in Germany, a team of scientists concluded that, around 400 ka, hominids in the area hunted and exploited [[beaver]]s. They may have been targeted for their meat (based on cut marks on the bones) and skin.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gaudzinski-Windheuser |first=Sabine |last2=Kindler |first2=Lutz |last3=Roebroeks |first3=Wil |date=2023-11-13 |title=Beaver exploitation, 400,000 years ago, testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46956-6 |journal=Scientific Reports |language=en |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=19766 |doi=10.1038/s41598-023-46956-6 |issn=2045-2322|doi-access=free |hdl=1887/3674398 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
After analyzing 2,496 remains of ''[[Eurasian beaver|Castor fiber]]'' (Eurasian beaver) and ''[[Trogontherium|Trogontherium cuvieri]]'' found at Bilzingsleben in Germany, a team of scientists concluded that, around 400 ka, hominids in the area hunted and exploited [[beaver]]s. They may have been targeted for their meat (based on cut marks on the bones) and skin.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gaudzinski-Windheuser |first1=Sabine |last2=Kindler |first2=Lutz |last3=Roebroeks |first3=Wil |date=2023-11-13 |title=Beaver exploitation, 400,000 years ago, testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins |journal=Scientific Reports |language=en |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=19766 |doi=10.1038/s41598-023-46956-6 |issn=2045-2322|doi-access=free |pmid=37957223 |pmc=10643649 |bibcode=2023NatSR..1319766G |hdl=1887/3674398 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>


==Chronology==
==Chronology==

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Chibanian
0.774 – 0.129 Ma
Chronology
Etymology
Name formalityFormal
Name ratifiedJanuary 2020
Synonym(s)Middle Pleistocene
Ionian
Usage information
Celestial bodyEarth
Regional usageGlobal (ICS)
Time scale(s) usedICS Time Scale
Definition
Chronological unitAge
Stratigraphic unitStage
Time span formalityFormal
Lower boundary definition1.1 m below the directional midpoint of the Brunhes-Matuyama magnetic reversal
Lower boundary GSSPChiba, Japan
35°17′39″N 140°08′47″E / 35.2943°N 140.1465°E / 35.2943; 140.1465
Lower GSSP ratifiedJanuary 2020[3]
Upper boundary definitionNot formally defined
Upper boundary definition candidatesMarine Isotope Substage 5e
Upper boundary GSSP candidate section(s)None
The Chibanian stratum, which dates back to the Chiba period, is located along the Yoro River in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture. At the bottom left is a golden spike that marks the boundary between eras. The color-coded stakes on the right mark the boundaries of geological formations, indicating that the Earth's magnetic field was reversing.

The Chibanian, more widely known as the Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), 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.[4] 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 0.129 Ma (129,000 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.[5] The beginning of the Chibanian is the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal, when the Earth's magnetic field last underwent reversal.[6] Its end roughly coincides with the termination of the Penultimate Glacial Period and the onset of the Last Interglacial period (corresponding to the beginning of Marine Isotope Stage 5).[7]

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.[8]

Definition process

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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.[9] The "Chibanian" name was ratified by the IUGS in January 2020.[4]

Climate

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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,[10] with the glacial cycles becoming asymmetric, having long glacial periods punctuated by short warm interglacial periods.[11] Millennial-scale climatic variability continued to be highly sensitive to precession and obliquity cycles.[12]

In central Italy, the climate became noticeably more arid from 600 ka to 400 ka.[13]

The late Middle Pleistocene was a time of regional aridification in the Levant, with a shallow lake covering what is now the Shishan Marsh drying and developing into a marsh.[14]

Eastern Africa's hydroclimate was governed primarily by orbital precession, although modulated significantly by the 100 kyr eccentricity cycle.[15]

Along the northwestern Australian coast, the intensification of the Leeuwin Current resulted in an expansion of reefs coincident with the Great Barrier Reef's formation.[16]

Events

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The Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary saw the migration of true horses out of North America and into Eurasia.[17] 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).[18] With the extinction of Sinomastodon in East Asia at the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary, gomphotheres became completely extinct in Afro-Eurasia,[19][20] but continued to persist in the Americas into the Late Pleistocene.[20] There was a major extinction of carnivorous mammals in Europe around the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition, including the giant hyena Pachycrocuta.[21] 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.[18][22] 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.[23] 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.[24] Around 500,000 years ago, the last members of the largely European aquatic frog genus Palaeobatrachus and by extension the family Palaeobatrachidae became extinct.[25]

Palaeoanthropology

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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.[26] The oldest known human DNA dates to the Middle Pleistocene, around 430,000 years ago. This is the oldest found, as of 2016.[27]

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.[28]

Chronology

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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
563–524 ka MIS 14
524–474 ka MIS 13 end of Cromerian (Günz-Mindel) interglacial Boxgrove Man (Homo heidelbergensis)
474–424 ka MIS 12 Anglian Stage in Britain; Haslach glaciation Tautavel Man (Homo erectus)
424–374 ka MIS 11 Hoxnian (Britain), Yarmouthian (North America) Swanscombe Man (Homo heidelbergensis)
374–337 ka MIS 10 Mindel glaciation, Elster glaciation, Riss glaciation
337–300 ka MIS 9 Purfleet Interglacial in Britain Mousterian
300–243 ka MIS 8 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

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