The Mammal Neogene zones or MN zones are system of biostratigraphic zones in the stratigraphic record used to correlate mammal-bearing fossil localities of the Neogene period of Europe. It consists of seventeen consecutive zones (numbered MN 1 through MN 18; MN 7 and 8 have been joined into MN 7/8 zone) defined through reference faunas, well-known sites that other localities can be correlated with. MN 1 is the earliest zone, and MN 18 is the most recent. The MN zones are complementary with the MP zones in the Paleogene.
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The zones are as follows:[{{cite web |title=Mammal Neogene Units |publisher=Paleobiology Database |url=http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=viewTimeScale&scale_no=109 |website=Paleobiology Database |access-date=17 December 2021}}]
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! Reference Locality[{{Citation |last=Mein |first=P. |title=Updating of MN Zones |date=1990 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2513-8_6 |work=European Neogene Mammal Chronology |pages=73–90 |editor-last=Lindsay |editor-first=Everett H. |series=NATO ASI Series |place=Boston, MA |publisher=Springer US |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4899-2513-8_6 |isbn=978-1-4899-2513-8 |access-date=2021-06-02 |editor2-last=Fahlbusch |editor2-first=Volker |editor3-last=Mein |editor3-first=Pierre}}]
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! ICS stages[International Commission on Stratigraphy (2021.) - [https://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2021-10.pdf INTERNATIONAL CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC CHART]] |
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| MN 18
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| 2.0 Ma
| 0 Ma
| Gelasian to present |
| MN 17
| Saint-Vallier (France)
| 2.5 Ma
| 2.0 Ma
| Gelasian |
| MN 16
| Arondelli / Triversa (Italy)
| 3.2 Ma
| 2.5 Ma
| Gelasian - Piacenzian - Zanclean |
| MN 15
| Perpignan (France)
| 4.2 Ma
| 3.2 Ma
| Zanclean |
| MN 14
| Podlesice (Poland)
| 4.9 Ma
| 4.2 Ma
| Zanclean |
| MN 13
| El Arquilla (Spain)
| 7.0 Ma (between 6.8 and 7.2 Ma)
| 4.9 Ma
| Zanclean - Messinian |
| MN 12
| Los Mansuetos (Spain)
| 7.75 Ma (between 8.0 and 7.5 Ma)
| 7.0 Ma (between 6.8 and 7.2 Ma)
| Messinian - Tortonian |
| MN 11
| Crevillente 2 (Spain)
| 8.7 Ma
| 7.75 Ma (between 8.0 and 7.5 Ma)
| Tortonian |
| MN 10
| Masia del Barbo (Spain)
| 9.7 Ma
| 8.7 Ma
| Tortonian |
| MN 9
| Can Llobateres (Spain)
| 11.1 Ma
| 9.7 Ma
| Tortonian |
| MN 7/8
| La Grive M (France)
| 12.75 Ma (between 13.0 and 12.5 Ma)
| 11.1 Ma
| Tortonian - Serravallian |
| MN 6
| Sansan (France)
| 13.7 Ma
| 12.75 Ma (between 13.0 and 12.5 Ma)
| Serravallian |
| MN 5
| Faluns Pont Levoy- Thenay (France)
| 16.0 Ma
| 13.7 Ma
| Serravallian - Langhian - Burdigalian |
| MN 4
| La Romieu (France)
| 16.9 Ma (between 16.6 and 17.2 Ma)
| 16.0 Ma
| Burdigalian |
| MN 3
| Wintershof-West (Germany)
| 20.0 Ma
| 16.9 Ma (between 16.6 and 17.2 Ma)
| Burdigalian |
| MN 2
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- Montaigu (France)
- Laugnac (France)
| 22.4 Ma
| 20.0 Ma
| Burdigalian - Aquitanian |
| MN 1
| Paulhiac (France)
| 23.03 ± 0.05 Ma[Norbert Schmidt-Kittler (ed.) "International symposium on mammalian biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the European Paleogene, Mainz, February 18th-21st 1987." Münchner geowiss. Abh., 10, 1-311.][{{cite journal |last1=İslamoğlu|first1=Yeşim|last2=Harzhauser|first2=Mathias|last3=Gross|first3=Martin|last4=Jiménez-Moreno|first4=Gonzalo|last5=Čorić|first5=Stjepan|last6=Kroh|first6=Andreas|last7=Rögl|first7=Fred|last8=van der Made|first8=Jan|publisher=Springer |date=2006 |title=From Tethys to Eastern Paratethys: Oligocene depositional environments, paleoecology and paleobiogeography of the Thrace Basin (NW Turkey)|journal=International Journal of Earth Sciences|volume=99|issue=1|pages=183–200|doi=10.1007/s00531-008-0378-0|s2cid=54934222 }}][{{Cite journal |author1=Floréal Solé |author2=Bernard Marandat |author3=Fabrice Lihoreau |year=2020 |title=The hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the French locality of Aumelas (Hérault), with possible new representatives from the late Ypresian |journal=Geodiversitas|volume=42|issue=13|pages=185–214|doi=10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a13|s2cid=219585388 |doi-access=free }}]
| 22.4 Ma
| Aquitanian |