Messinium - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Messina +‎ -ium. This scientific term was introduced by Swiss stratigrapher Karl Mayer-Eymar in 1857 when he published his paper Versuch einer neuen Klassifikation der Tertiär-Gebilde Europas (An Attempt at a New Classification of the Tertiary Formations of Europe).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [mɛˈsiːni̯ʊm]
• Hyphenation: Mes‧si‧ni‧um

Messinium n (strong, genitive Messiniums, no plural)

1. (geology, paleontology) Messinian (The final subdivision of the Miocene epoch.)

• Miozän

• Tortonium, Serravallium, Langhium, Burdigalium, Aquitanium

• Magnesium
• Germanium