[HTML][HTML] Quaternary time scales for the Pontocaspian domain: Interbasinal connectivity and faunal evolution

W Krijgsman, A Tesakov, T Yanina, S Lazarev… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pontocaspian (Black Sea-Caspian Sea) region has a very dynamic history of
basin development and biotic evolution. The region is the remnant of a once vast Paratethys …

Late Cenozoic base-level variations of the Caspian Sea: a review of its history and proposed driving mechanisms

AM Forte, E Cowgill - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Caspian Sea is characterized by significant variations in its base level during
the late Cenozoic and provides an important repository for long-term records of both …

The Badenian–Sarmatian Extinction Event in the Carpathian foredeep basin of Romania: Paleogeographic changes in the Paratethys domain

DV Palcu, M Tulbure, M Bartol, TJ Kouwenhoven… - Global and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Badenian–Sarmatian boundary interval is marked by a major extinction event
of marine species in the Central Paratethys. The exact age of the boundary is debated …

[HTML][HTML] Five-fold expansion of the Caspian Sea in the late Pliocene: New and revised magnetostratigraphic and 40Ar/39Ar age constraints on the Akchagylian Stage

S Lazarev, KF Kuiper, O Oms, M Bukhsianidze… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Global climate reorganisation in the late Pliocene linked to enhancement of the Atlantic
Ocean Thermohaline Circulation (AOTC), instigated a transition to glacial-interglacial …

Mitochondrial phylogeny shows multiple independent ecological transitions and northern dispersion despite of Pleistocene glaciations in meadow and steppe vipers …

O Zinenko, N Stümpel, L Mazanaeva, A Bakiev… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2015 - Elsevier
The phylogeny and historical demography of small Eurasian vipers of the Vipera ursinii and
V. renardi complexes were studied using mitochondrial DNA sequences analysed with …

The end of the Great Khersonian Drying of Eurasia: Magnetostratigraphic dating of the Maeotian transgression in the Eastern Paratethys

DV Palcu, I Vasiliev, M Stoica, W Krijgsman - Basin Research, 2019 - earthdoc.org
Central Eurasia underwent significant palaeoclimatic and palaeogeographic transformations
during the middle to late Miocene. The open marine ecosystems of the Langhian and …

Neogene hyperaridity in Arabia drove the directions of mammalian dispersal between Africa and Eurasia

M Böhme, N Spassov, MR Majidifard… - … earth & environment, 2021 - nature.com
The evolution of the present-day African savannah fauna has been substantially influenced
by the dispersal of Eurasian ancestors into Africa. The ancestors evolved endemically …

The growth of a mountain belt forced by base-level fall: Tectonics and surface processes during the evolution of the Alborz Mountains, N Iran

P Ballato, A Landgraf, TF Schildgen, DF Stockli… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
The idea that climatically modulated erosion may impact orogenic processes has
challenged geoscientists for decades. Although modeling studies and physical calculations …

Palynology and micropalaeontology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in outcrop from the western Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan: Potential links with the Mediterranean …

K Richards, CGC van Baak, J Athersuch… - Palaeogeography …, 2018 - Elsevier
New palynological, ostracod and foraminiferal data are presented from a long outcrop
section in the Jeirankechmez river valley, Azerbaijan, near the western coast of the Caspian …

Synopsis of the terrestrial vertebrate faunas from the Middle Kura Basin (Eastern Georgia and Western Azerbaijan, South Caucasus)

M Bukhsianidze, K Koiava - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2018 - agro.icm.edu.pl
This paper summarizes knowledge on the Neogene–Quaternary terrestrial fossil record from
the Middle Kura Basin accumulated over a century and aims to its integration into the current …