Zanclean

Etymology
From, the name originally given to the city of Messina, Sicily, by its ancient Greek founders. (Compare, the preceding age.)

Proper noun

 * 1)  A geological subdivision, the earliest age of the Pliocene epoch.
 * 2) * 1881, "A. W. W.", Notices of Memoirs: I.—Tertiary Geology of the Reggiano (Calabria), in Henry Woodward (editor), , New Series, Decade 2, Volume 8, Trübner & Co., page 324,
 * The Pliocene is found at a much greater elevation than any of the other Tertiary series, reaching in the Zanclean to 1200 mètres above the sea, and as the conditions of deposition were quite different here from those which obtained in north Italy, the series in one part of the peninsula forms a complement to those in the other.

Translations

 * Catalan: Zancleà
 * Dutch: Zanclien
 * French:
 * German: Zancleum
 * Hungarian: Zanclai
 * Italian: Zancleano
 * Polish: zankl
 * Spanish: Zanclayense