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

Krijgsman, W.; Tesakov, A.; Yanina, T.; Lazarev, S.; Danukalova, G.; Van Baak, C.G.C.; Agustí, J.; Alçiçek, M.C.; Aliyeva, E.; Bista, D.; Bruch, A.; Büyükmeriç, Y.; Bukhsianidze, M.; Flecker, R.; Frolov, P.; Hoyle, T.M.; Jorissen, E.L.; Kirscher, U.; Koriche, S.A.; Kroonenberg, S.B.; Lordkipanidze, D.; Oms, O.; Rausch, L.; Singarayer, J.; Stoica, M.; van de Velde, S.; Titov, V.V.; Wesselingh, F.P.

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

1. Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 17, Utrecht 3584, The Netherlands
2. Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevsky 7, Moscow 119017, Russia
3. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
4. Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology of the Ufimian Scientific Centre, K. Marx St. 16/2, Ufa 450077, Russia
5. CASP, West Building, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0UD, UK
6. ICREA. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
7. Department of Geology, Pamukkale University, Denizli 20070, Turkey
8. Geological Institute of Azerbaijan (GIA), H. Javid Av. 29A, AZ1143, Baku, Azerbaijan
9. BRIDGE, School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
10. Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut Senckenberganlage, Frankfurt 25 60325, Germany
11. Department of Geological Engineering, Bülent Ecevit University, Incivez/Zonguldak 67100, Turkey
12. The National Museum of Georgia, 3 Purtseladze St., 0107, Tbilisi, Georgia
13. Earth Dynamics Research Group, Department of Applied Geology, WASM, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
14. Department of Meteorology and Centre for Past Climate Change, University of Reading, UK
15. Department of Applied Earth Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft 2600, The Netherlands
16. Fac. de Ciències Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
17. Department of Paleontology, Bucharest University, Bălcescu Bd. 1, Bucharest 010041, Romania
18. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, Leiden 2300, The Netherlands
19. Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Arid Zones, Chekhova 41, Rostov-on-Don 344006, Russia

Krijgsman, W., Tesakov, A., Yanina, T., Lazarev, S., Danukalova, G., Van Baak, C.G.C., Agustí, J., Alçiçek, M.C., Aliyeva, E., Bista, D., Bruch, A., Büyükmeriç, Y., Bukhsianidze, M., Flecker, R., Frolov, P., Hoyle, T.M., Jorissen, E.L., Kirscher, U., Koriche, S.A., Kroonenberg, S.B., Lordkipanidze, D., Oms, O., Rausch, L., Singarayer, J., Stoica, M., van de Velde, S., Titov, V.V., Wesselingh, F.P. (2019): Quaternary time scales for the Pontocaspian domain: Interbasinal connectivity and faunal evolution. Earth-Science Reviews 188: 1-40, DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.10.013, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.10.013

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