Abstract The Cenozoic Asian climate system experienced a transformation from zonal pattern to monsoon-dominant around the Paleogene-Neogene boundary. A series of dynamic mechanisms, such as uplift Tibetan Plateau, retreat Paratethys Sea, expansion South China and decreasing atmospheric CO2 content, has been suggested be responsible for pattern. However, role topographic growth in eastern rarely...

The article describes a new subspecies Eurytemora caspica tethysiana subsp. nova that, according to its genetic and morphological features, is closely related the recently described species from Caspian Sea. According our hypothesis, both of these taxa are relics fauna Tethys Sea in last phase existence (Paratethys). form occupies an intermediate position between carolleeae by characteristics. ...

The late Miocene Messinian salinity crisis was an evaporitic episode that occurred throughout the Mediterranean; it concluded with a transition from hypersaline to fresher-water “lake sea” (Lago Mare) conditions prior Pliocene. Whereas numerous researchers propose Lago Mare sediments accumulated in Mediterranean-wide lake filled Paratethyan waters, other workers reject this hypothesis. Here, te...

Palaeobiogeographical and palaeodiversity patterns of scleractinian reef corals are generally biased due to uncertain taxonomy and a loss of taxonomic characters through dissolution and recrystallization of the skeletal aragonite in shallow marine limestones. Herein, we describe a fossil lobophylliid coral in mouldic preservation from the early middle Miocene Leitha Limestone of the Central Par...