TY - JOUR A1 - Walaszczyk, Ireneusz A1 - Čech, Stanislav A1 - Crampton, James S. A1 - Dubicka, Zofia A1 - Ifrim, Christina A1 - Jarvis, Ian A1 - Kennedy, William James A1 - Lees, Jackie A. A1 - Lodowski, Damian A1 - Pearce, Martin A1 - Peryt, Danuta A1 - Sageman, Bradley B. A1 - Schiøler, Poul A1 - Todes, Jordan A1 - Uličný, David A1 - Voigt, Silke A1 - Wiese, Frank A1 - Linnert, Christian A1 - Püttmann, Tobias A1 - Toshimitsu, Seiichi T1 - The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Coniacian Stage (Salzgitter-Salder, Germany) and its auxiliary sections (Słupia Nadbrzeżna, central Poland; Střeleč, Czech Republic; and El Rosario, NE Mexico) T2 - Episodes N2 - Following votes in the Coniacian Working Group, the Cretaceous Subcommission and the International Commission on Stratigraphy, on May 1st, 2021, the International Union of Geological Sciences voted unanimously to ratify the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) proposal for the base of the Coniacian Stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series and Cretaceous System. The lower boundary of the Coniacian Stage is placed at the base of Bed 46 of the Salzgitter-Salder section in northern Germany. The boundary is defined by the first appearance of the inoceramid bivalve species Cremnoceramus deformis erectus (Meek) and complemented by the Navigation carbon isotope event. Additional data include the bivalve genus Didymotis, foraminifera, ammonite, nannofossil and organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst events. Three auxiliary sections (Słupia Nadbrzeżna, central Poland; Střeleč, Czech Republic; El Rosario, NE Mexico) supplement the details of the boundary record in various facies, and in differing geographic and biogeographic contexts. Y1 - 2022 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62786 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-627868 SN - 2586-1298 N1 - The financial support of the German Science Foundation to Christina Ifrim (DFG project IF61/11-1 and STI128/40/1), of Evolution Applied Limited to MAP, and Equinor Energy AS (previously Statoil ASA) to Ian Jarvis (contract 4502311303) is gratefully acknowledged. James S. Crampton and Poul Schiøler acknowledge the use of palynological samples that were prepared by GNS Science (Lower Hutt, New Zealand). David Uličný and Stanislav Čech acknowledge support by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR), grant No. 17-10982S, and by the Czech Academy of Sciences through Programme 67985530. Irek Walaszczyk acknowledges the financial support of the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) through grant no. 2018/31/B/ST10/01820. VL - 45 IS - 2 SP - 181 EP - 220 PB - IUGS CY - Beijing ER -