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Fluviatile deposits of the Krutaya Gorka regional formation host a new locality of Early Pliocene continental biota from southern Western Siberia. The Novaya Livenka site provides important data on palynology, paleocarpology, molluscs, fishes, and small mammals, mostly coming from a single fossiliferous bed. This study is the first successful insig...
The Great Lakes Depression in northwestern Mongolia contains widespread Late Neogene continental deposits, reaching thicknesses of several hundred metres. The Late Neogene Khyargas Nuur formation (also known as the Khirgis-Nur formation) has a significant biostratigraphic value for Central Asia, as it encompasses a unique palaeontological record an...
The results of comparative analysis of the structure and history of the Neogene-Quaternary development of 18 inrermontane basins in Northern Armenia and Eastern Türkiye are presented. The research is based on expeditionary work carried out by the authors in 2012–2023, and supplemented by published materials from other researchers. Palaeontological,...
The dominance of the voles Lagurodon arankae (Kretzoi, 1954) and Allophaiomys deucalion Kretzoi, 1969 in the Early Pleistocene small mammalian fauna from the main bone-bearing level of the Taurida cave (central Crimea) allows dating this faunal association to the beginning of the Calabrian (about 1.8–1.6 Ma), and correlating it to the Late Villafra...
The known Plio-Pleistocene mammalian record, mainly represented by small mammals, and its biotic and geological context in the vast region of Eastern Turkey and Transcaucasus provides a sound base for regional biochronology. Recently obtained faunal associations and the main evolutionary lineages found in the region support direct correlations to t...
Vladimir Laskarev (1868-1954) Russian and Serbian geologist strongly influenced geological literature by introducing a scientific term Paratethys for the series of intercontinental water basins separated from the Mediterranean Sea and the World Ocean by the Alpine orogeny. Laskarev's scientific activity in the Russian Empire (1890-s-1919) was based...
A rich locality of late Holocene vertebrates in Sagan-Zaba Bay on the SW coast of Lake Baikal was discovered by A.G. Filippov in the Sagan-Zaba-7 grotto (Filippov et al., 2011).The Sagan-Zaba-7 grotto is located in the Lower Paleozoic marbles of the Cis-Olkhon Plateau. It is assumed that the accumulation of bones in the grotto is associated with th...
The loess-paleosol sequence of the Alma-Peschanoe section located in the west of the Crimean
Peninsula is analyzed. A comprehensive analysis of morphological, physicochemical, and some other features
enables us to identify eight paleosols formed under different conditions. The supposed age of the loesspaleosol
sequence was determined by the paleofa...
В позднеплиоценовых отложениях Эрзурумской впадины (Восточная Турция) в толще речных песчано-алевритовых осадков, накопившихся в дельте гильбертового типа, обнаружены остракоды, преимущественно Candona neglecta, со следами различных сверлений. Раковины имели сверления водорослей и/или бактерий, использовавших их в качестве субстрата, и хищников, на...
The Tagay vertebrate fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Russia) dated to the late Early Miocene yielded a diverse association of sciurine rodents, including flying squirrel Hylopetes sp., tree squirrels Sciurus cf. lii, Sciurus sp., and Blackia cf. miocaenica, and a numerically dominant small marmotine Miospermophilus debruijni. The presence of fly...
The NOW database of fossil mammals came to be through a confluence of several initiatives spanning multiple decades. The first public version of NOW database was released in 1996 and the first Advisory Board was established the year after. Originally, NOW stood for Neogene of the Old World but with the gradual expansion of the database the acronym...
NOW ( New and Old Worlds ) is a global database of fossil mammal occurrences, currently containing around 68,000 locality-species entries. The database spans the last 66 million years, with its primary focus on the last 23 million years. Whereas the database contains records from all continents, the main focus and coverage of the database historica...
The Lower-Upper Pleistocene sedimentary record of the Baklan Basin, a long-lived continental half-graben basin in SW Turkey, is characterized by shallow lacustrine and palustrine deposits. The paleoenvironmental changes recorded in the basin succession allow for a multiproxy approach in reconstructing the paleoclimatic, paleoecological, and paleobi...
The locality of the theriofauna Ozernaya Balya (the left bank of the Bratsk reservoir on the Angara River near the village of Yuzhny) was discovered in the course of a biostratigraphic study of the vicinity of the eroded Paleolithic site of the same name (Filippov et al., 1995). Additional studies of the cliff sections were carried out in 2016 and...
The current collective monograph contains the results of archaeological, paleoanthropological, and palaeontological studies of the material from a series of sites of the Early and Middle Palaeolithic from the territory of the Northern and Southern Sea of Azov Region. The specific focus is on the sites of the Taman Early Palaeolithic complex and on...
Propliomys jalpugensis, a fossil rhizodont vole (late Early Pliocene, late Ruscinian, MN15), is revised based on materials from the type locality Kotlovina (southwestern Ukraine). This form is interpreted as a phyletic stage, marked by dental complication of first lower molar and hypsodonty, intermediate between the preceding late Early Pliocene Pr...
A previously unknown evolutionary stage of true lemmings, Lemmini, is recorded in the lower upper Pliocene (early Villanyian, MN16a) of West Siberia. Tobienia fejfari, sp. nov. represents a more advanced evolutionary stage than the previously known European Tobienia kretzoii (late Ruscinian, MN15b), combining rhizodont molar teeth with extreme hyps...
The Pleistocene Series/Epoch of the Quaternary System/Period has been divided unofficially into three subseries/subepochs since at least the 1870s. On 30th January, 2020, the Executive Committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences ratified two proposals approved by the International Commission on Stratigraphy formalizing: 1) the Lower...
The remains of the white-toothed shrew Crocidura kornfeldi Kormos, 1934 (one skull fragment with almost complete dentition, the fragmental rostral part of a skull with the left upper incisor, a maxillary fragment, five mandibular fragments and an isolated upper incisor) from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave in the central Crimea (...
The herpetofauna of the late Miocene age in Turkey is nearly unknown, as it is represented by a single known anguine assemblage from the latest Miocene of Süleymanli locality. The amphibians and reptiles from the three early late Miocene (MN 9) localities of Bayraktepe 2, Kütahya, and Altıntaş in Anatolia are described here. One amphibian (Latonia...
The remains of the white-toothed shrew Crocidura kornfeldi Kormos, 1934 (one skull fragment with almost complete dentition, the fragmental rostral part of a skull with the left upper incisor, a maxillary fragment, five mandibular fragments and an isolated upper incisor) from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave in the central Crimea (...
A material of Mioproteus wezei is described from the Plevaka locality of Taman Peninsula in Russia. It represents the most abundant material on the species to date that facilitates the discussion on its taxonomic status. The record of M. wezei from the Taman Peninsula apparently suggests a wide geographic range of the species in Europe during the P...
Время заселения человеком Русской равнины и культурные особенности ее первых поселенцев остаются предметом дискуссий. В статье анализируются материалы древнейшей на юго-востоке Русской равнины стратифицированной ашельской стоянки Хрящи на Нижнем Дону. Суммируются сведения о стоянке, приводятся предварительные результаты новых исследований. Анализ о...
Homo erectus paleoenvironments in the early Pleistocene Denizli Basin: an integrated
paleontological, sedimentological and geochemical approach
An aminostratigraphical study was undertaken to provide an independent test of the veracity of the East European Mammal zonation. This important biostratigraphical scheme was originally defined from reference sites in the Azov/Black Sea region of southern Russia, but is now widely used to correlate late Neogene and Quaternary sediments across much...
The Kosika locality is situated on the lowest terrace of the Enotayevka River (right channel of the Volga River) near Kosika village, in the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation. This locality includes several sections, named Kosika 1–4 and Borehole 2 Kosika that are described in detail for the first time. Drilling, sediment descriptions, and...
Small fossil vertebrates from several Pliocene and Pleistocene localities in Central Anatolia (Turkey) are reviewed. Data on small mammals represent assemblages from the early Pliocene (MN 14: Nasrettinhoca 1, 2 and Hamamkarahisar A, B), and late Pliocene (MN 16: Hoyhoytepe 1, 2, 3 and Mercan 1); Early Pleistocene (MN 17: Mercan 2), and Middle Plei...
Terrestrial fossil records from the SW Anatolian basins are crucial both for regional correlations and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. By reassessing biostratigraphic constraints and incorporating new fossil data, we calibrated and reconstructed the late Neogene and Quaternary palaeoenvironments within a regional palaeogeographical framework....
Stratigraphy, structure, and tectonics of the Turkish part of the intermontane Shirak Basin and the adjacent Susuz Basin were studied based on methods of structural geology, geological and geomorphological correlation, paleontology, paleomagnetism, and archaeology. For the first time, the Pliocene-Quaternary stratigraphy and tectonics of the wester...
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 Sea. It contains some of the best Eurasian geological records of tectonic, climatic and paleoenvironmental change. The Pliocene-Quaternary co-evolution of the Black Sea-Caspian S...
Studies in paleomagnetism, structural geology, and paleontology (mammals, molluscs, palynology) in the coastal sections of the Taman Peninsula north-eastern part (2017–18) resulted in definition of three sedimentary members. The sandy and clayey lower member (I) formed at 2.1–1.7 Ma. It contains a normally magnetised zone within deposits of reverse...
Studies in paleomagnetism, structural geology, and paleontology (mammals, mollusks, palynology) in the coastal sections of the Taman Peninsula north-western part (2017–18) resulted in definition of three sedimentary sequences. The sandy and clayey lower sequence (I) formed at 2.1–1.7 Ma. It contains a normally magnetised zone within deposits of rev...
Two names ( Clethrionomys and Myodes ) are used interchangeably for red-backed voles, which is contrary to one of the fundamental principles of zoological nomenclature, that each taxon has a single and unique valid name. Fixation of Mus lemmus Linnaeus, 1758, as the type of Myodes Pallas, 1811, meets the requirements stipulated in the Article 69.1....
Terrestrial fossil records from the SW Anatolian basins are crucial both for regional correlations and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. By reassessing biostratigraphic constraints and incorporating new fossil data, we calibrated and reconstructed the late Neogene and Quaternary palaeoenvironments within a regional palaeogeographic framework.
Cu...
The new basal ursine bear, Ballusia zhegalloi n. sp., is described from the Early Miocene Tagay 1 locality (Baikal region, Russia) based on isolated M1. Previously described maxillary fragment with M1-2 from the closely synchronous fauna of Khirgis-Nur I in Mongolia, originally referred to Ballusia elemensis, is here included into the new species....
The area under study belongs to the Armenian part of the Armenian volcanic Highland. Previous investigations (Milanovsky, 1968; Trifonov et al., 2014, 2016; Trifonov, 2016) revealed that mountain systems of the Arabia-Caucasus region as well as other segments of the Alpine-Himalayan Belt rose significantly and rapidly during the Late Miocene and pa...
Phylogeny of birch mice is estimated using sequences of ten nuclear genes and one mitochondrial gene. Based on the results of tree reconstructions and molecular dating, five major lineages are recognized: “tianschanica,” “concolor,” “caudata,” “betulina,” and “caucasica.” It is established that the three latter lineages constitute a clade and that...
Majority of researchers consider the Arabian-Caucasus region as a corridor for migration of earliest hominins from their African motherland to Eurasia. The paper is devoted to geological position of main stratified localities of the earliest Paleolithic industries in the Arabian-Caucasus region and estimation of environment of creators of these ind...
The Kosika locality is situated on the lowest terrace of the Enotayevka River (right channel of the Volga River) near Kosika village, in the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation. This locality includes several sections, named Kosika 1–4 and Borehole 2 Kosika that are described in detail for the first time. Drilling, sediment descriptions, and...
The Pliocene–Quaternary paleogeography of the Euphrates River valley changed due to sinistral movements on the East-Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) and the Taurus Ridge rise by movements on the South-Taurus Thrust. Evidence of these changes is based on studies of the Pliocene–Quaternary deposits of the Euphrates River basin to the north and to the sout...
This work presents the history of study of the Neopleistocene Singil deposits, results of analysis the drilling data, and different points of view on the stratigraphy of reference sections of the Lower Volga Region. A large volume of drilling core data indicate that the Singil deposits lie between the Lower Khazar and Upper Khazar deposits, which c...
The Beringian Land Bridge is a well-documented dispersal corridor between the Eurasian continent and North America. Episodic sub-aerial exposure of the land bridge during the Late Cenozoic resulted from climatic oscillations and concomitant lowering of sea level. For much of the Pleistocene, dispersal was predominantly west-to-east (e.g., from Eura...
Razdorskoe 1, one of the best studied Chalcolithic settlements in the south of Eastern Europe, provided data for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Six Chalcolithic beds of the studied site yielded synthetic data on anthropology, archaeozoology (including mammals, fishes, and molluscs), and palynology and microalgology, indicating steppe-like lan...
The recent paper by Elitez and Yaltırak (2016) proposes a revised Neogene stratigraphy that attempts to reconstruct tectonostratigraphic evolutionof the Çameli Basin area of the SW Anatolia (Fig.1), a region intensely studied by The Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) and The Geological Survey of Turkey (MTA) over past decades. Both TPAO and MTA p...
Late Miocene continental deposits overlying the Khersonian marine sediments near the city of Maikop bordering the Belaya River (North Caucasus) yielded a diverse biotic record including palynology, ostracods, fresh-water and terrestrial molluscs, fishes, amphibians and reptiles, birds, and mammals. The obtained data indicate predominantly wooded la...
New data on the stratigraphy, faults, and formation history of lower to middle Pleistocene rocks in Late Cenozoic basins of northwestern Armenia are presented. It has been established that the low-mountain topography created by tectonic movements and volcanic activity existed in the region by the onset of the Pleistocene. The manifestations of two...
A new arhizodont arvicoline rodent is described from early Pleistocene deposits of Barranco de los Conejos and Barranco del Paso in the Guadix-Baza Basin of southern Spain. The molars of Orcemys appear to represent a paedomorphic origination from a large rhizodont Mimomys. A few dental characters of Orcemys are superficially similar to those of the...
An integrated study of the loess–soil sequence in the coastal exposure near the settlement of Beglitsa (Rostov oblast) allowed us, for the first time, to reconstruct the landscape-climatic changes that occurred in the eastern Azov region over the course of the Late Pleistocene. In the south of the periglacial zone, considerable differences between...
A large mole vole from the early Middle Pleistocene of Armenia shows morphological features and hyposodonty intermediate between basal Early Pleistocene E. tarchancutensis and the late Middle Pleistocene to Recent southern mole vole E. lutescens. The occlusal morphology of the first lower molar is similar to Early Pleistocene forms but hypsodonty v...
The Quaternary stratigraphy and tectonic development of the southern Javakheti Upland and the adjacent Upper Akhurian and Lori uplifted basins in NW Armenia (Lesser Caucasus) and geological position of the early and middle Acheulian lithic industries were studied using a multi-method approach. Studies of sedimentary sections, petrological and geoch...
Sedimentary basins in Anatolia preserve a rich record of Neogene terrestrial environments at the crossroads between Asia and Europe. Deciphering the geological evolution of these basins is essential for understanding how this fine record came to be preserved. In a reciprocal fashion, the fossil record allows for correlating between basins and for r...
Paleogeography of the Euphrates River valley changes due to sinistral movements on the
East-Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) and the Taurus Ridge rise by movements on the South Taurus
Thrust. Evidence of these changes is based on studies of the Pliocene–Quaternary deposits of the
Euphrates River basin to the north and the south of the Taurus Ridge and t...
Paleogeography of the Euphrates River valley changes due to sinistral movements on the
East-Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) and the Taurus Ridge rise by movements on the South Taurus
Thrust. Evidence of these changes is based on studies of the Pliocene–Quaternary deposits of the
Euphrates River basin to the north and the south of the Taurus Ridge and t...
Paleogeography of the Euphrates River valley changes due to sinistral movements on the
East-Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) and the Taurus Ridge rise by movements on the South Taurus
Thrust. Evidence of these changes is based on studies of the Pliocene–Quaternary deposits of the
Euphrates River basin to the north and the south of the Taurus Ridge and t...
Paleogeography of the Euphrates River valley changes due to sinistral movements on the
East-Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) and the Taurus Ridge rise by movements on the South Taurus
Thrust. Evidence of these changes is based on studies of the Pliocene–Quaternary deposits of the
Euphrates River basin to the north and the south of the Taurus Ridge and t...
Recent study on Lasiopodomys (Stenocranius) gregalis has revealed four clear mitochondrial lineages with differences exceeding the species level. The most divergent is the clade from south-eastern Transbaikalia. Multilocus (six nuclear genes), morphological (dental characters of m1 and M3) and behavioural (breeding experiments) analyses were conduc...
The discovery of the Early Pleistocene sites of Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka and Rodniki 1 on the Taman
Peninsula in western Ciscaucasia led to the recognition of a distinctive “Tamanian industry”, with a timerange of 1.6e1.2 Ma, and with characteristics that are transitional between Oldowan and Acheulean (“Archaic Acheulean”). The site of Kermek was dis...
