diff --git a/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataModel/collection.ts b/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataModel/collection.ts
index 9aa75af2d83..de889b2695d 100644
--- a/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataModel/collection.ts
+++ b/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataModel/collection.ts
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ export const fetchRows = async <
     readonly fields: FIELDS;
     readonly distinct?: boolean;
     readonly limit?: number;
+    readonly filterChronostrat?: boolean;
   },
   /**
    * Advanced filters, not type-safe.
diff --git a/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/PickLists/__tests__/fetch.test.ts b/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/PickLists/__tests__/fetch.test.ts
index 04cc8ced4c1..14ba1ab0c5a 100644
--- a/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/PickLists/__tests__/fetch.test.ts
+++ b/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/PickLists/__tests__/fetch.test.ts
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ describe('fetchPickListItems', () => {
   });
 
   overrideAjax(
-    '/api/specify_rows/locality/?limit=0&domainfilter=true&distinct=true&fields=localityname',
+    '/api/specify_rows/locality/?limit=0&domainfilter=true&filterchronostrat=false&distinct=true&fields=localityname',
     [['abc']]
   );
   test('entire column', async () => {
diff --git a/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/PickLists/fetch.ts b/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/PickLists/fetch.ts
index a5ce74f680a..f4fb195f439 100644
--- a/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/PickLists/fetch.ts
+++ b/specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/PickLists/fetch.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import {
   deserializeResource,
   serializeResource,
 } from '../DataModel/serializers';
-import { strictGetTable } from '../DataModel/tables';
+import { strictGetTable, tables } from '../DataModel/tables';
 import type { PickList, PickListItem, Tables } from '../DataModel/types';
 import { softFail } from '../Errors/Crash';
 import { format } from '../Formatters/formatters';
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ async function fetchFromField(
     fields: { [fieldName]: ['string', 'number', 'boolean', 'null'] },
     distinct: true,
     domainFilter: true,
+    filterChronostrat: tableName === tables.GeologicTimePeriod.name.toLowerCase() && fieldName === "name", // Prop for age filter in QueryBuilder
   }).then((rows) =>
     rows
       .map((row) => row[fieldName] ?? '')
diff --git a/specifyweb/specify/api.py b/specifyweb/specify/api.py
index e1dfbfd9319..22dd396a305 100644
--- a/specifyweb/specify/api.py
+++ b/specifyweb/specify/api.py
@@ -216,11 +216,14 @@ class GetCollectionForm(forms.Form):
 
     orderby = forms.CharField(required=False)
 
+    filterchronostrat = forms.BooleanField(required=False)
+
     defaults = dict(
         domainfilter=None,
         limit=0,
         offset=0,
         orderby=None,
+        filterchronostrat=False,
     )
 
     def clean_limit(self):
@@ -1010,7 +1013,7 @@ def apply_filters(logged_in_collection, params, model, control_params=GetCollect
 
         filters.update({param: val})
 
-    if model.__name__ == 'Geologictimeperiod':
+    if control_params['filterchronostrat'] == True:
         # Filter out invalid chronostrats
         filters.update({
             'startperiod__isnull': False,
@@ -1081,6 +1084,7 @@ class RowsForm(GetCollectionForm):
         orderby=None,
         distinct=False,
         fields=None,
+        filterchronostrat=False,
     )
 
 def rows(request, model_name: str) -> HttpResponse: