Dinantian
Series of rocks from the Lower Carboniferous
title: "Dinantian" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mississippian-geochronology", "carboniferous-europe", "stratigraphy-of-europe", "carboniferous-ireland", "carboniferous-wales", "carboniferous-united-kingdom", "dinant", "carboniferous-geochronology"] description: "Series of rocks from the Lower Carboniferous" topic_path: "geography/ireland" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinantian" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Series of rocks from the Lower Carboniferous ::
The Dinantian is a series or epoch from the Lower Carboniferous system in western Europe between 359.2 and 326.4 million years ago. It can stand for a series of rocks in Europe or the time span in which they were deposited.
The Dinantian is equal to the lower part of the Mississippian series in the international geologic timescale of the ICS. The Dinantian is named for the Belgian city of Dinant where strata of this age occur. The name is still used among European geologists.
Earlier terms for the Dinantian were Bernician from the Anglo-Scottish borderland, and Avonian Vaughan, A. (1905) "The Sequence in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Bristol Area", Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 61 (1-4), p. 181-307 (divided into upper (Kidwellian) and lower (Clevedonian) substages) from Kidwelly on the Welsh and Clevedon on the English sides of the Bristol Channel.
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