This list is of the biostratigraphic zones of Japan. The determinant Cretaceous "indices" being local species of Inoceramidae and Desmoceratoidea, the schema also differs from that of other regions.
Cretaceous Japanese time scale ICS Stage / Age System / Period Aptian Lower Cretaceous Albian Infragyliakian Cenomanian Upper Cretaceous Turonian Coniacian Santonian Infrahetonaian Campanian Maastrichtian
Palaeogene and Neogene Palaeogene and Neogene stages in western Japan include (from the Middle Eocene to the Early Miocene):
Other Neogene stages include:
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