The Sicilian European Stage is a Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an faunal stage

Faunal stage

In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition. A given stage of rock and the corresponding age of time will by convention have the same name, and the same boundaries.Rock...

 in the period of geological time

Geologic time scale

The geologic time scale provides a system of chronologic measurement relating stratigraphy to time that is used by geologists, paleontologists and other earth scientists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred during the history of the Earth...

 between 0.781 ± 0.005 Ma and 0.26 Ma (million years ago). It is considered to be in the middle of the Pleistocene

Pleistocene

The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years BP that spans the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....

 epoch

Epoch (geology)

An epoch is a subdivision of the geologic timescale based on rock layering. In order, the higher subdivisions are periods, eras and eons. We are currently living in the Holocene epoch...

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The Sicilian Stage starts with the Brunhes–Matuyama magnetic reversal at the end of the Calabrian

Calabrian

Calabrian may refer to:* Calabrian languages, the languages and dialects spoken in Calabria* Calabrians, the people of Calabria, southern Italy...

. The Milazzian faunal stage is sometimes considered to be the last part of the Sicilian, and sometimes to be between the Sicilian and the following Tyrrhenian Stage

Tyrrhenian Stage

The Tyrrhenian Stage is the last faunal stage of the Pleistocene in Italy. It runs from 0.26 million to 0.01143 million years ago. It overlaps with the end of the Middle Pleistocene and all of the Late Pleistocene...

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