Puercan

The Puercan North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the first North American faunal stage of the Paleocene epoch, according to the North American Land Mammal Ages (NALMA) chronology. It spans an interval from around 66 to 65.1 million years ago.

The Puercan is the first of four NALMAs corresponding to the Paleocene, followed by the Torrejonian, Tiffanian, and Clarkforkian. The Puercan directly follows the Lancian NALMA, which corresponds to the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous. The K-Pg boundary and K-Pg mass extinction at 66 million years ago approximates the boundary between the Lancian and Puercan. The Puercan is followed by the Torrejonian NALMA stage.

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