Dinantian

System	Series (NW Europe)	Stage (NW Europe)	Series (ICS)	Stage (ICS)	Age (Ma)
Permian					younger
Carboniferous	Silesian	Stephanian	Pennsylvanian	Gzhelian	299–303,9
		Westphalian		Kasimovian	303,9–306,5
				Moscovian	306,5–311,7
				Bashkirian	311,7–318,1
		Namurian
			Mississippian	Serpukhovian	318,1–326,4
	Dinantian	Visean		Visean	326,4–345,3
		Tournaisian		Tournaisian	345,3–359,2
Devonian					older
Subdivisions of the Carboniferous system in Europe compared with the official ICS-stages.

Dinantian is the name of a series or epoch from the Lower Carboniferous system in Europe. 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. It also correlates with the Avonian, a name proposed by British geologist Arthur Vaughan (1905; p. 264) for certain deposits of the Lower Carboniferous system in the Avon Gorge at Bristol. The Dinantian is named for the Belgian city and province of Dinant where strata of this age occur. The name is still used among European geologists.

References

• Vaughan, A. (1905) "The Palæntological Sequence in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Bristol Area", Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 61 (1-4), p. 181-307 doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1905.061.01-04.13
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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