Contents

pp vii-ix

List of contributors

pp x-xv

Acknowledgements: The European Science Foundation

pp xvi-xvi

1 - Introduction

pp 1-6

PART I - Palaeogeography of the circum-Mediterranean region

pp 7-7

2 - Mediterranean and Paratethys Palaeogeography during the Oligocene and Miocene

pp 8-22

3 - Pliocene tephra correlations between East African hominid localities, the Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian Sea

pp 23-54

4 - Climatic perspectives for Neogene environmental reconstructions

pp 55-82

PART II - Miocene mammalian successions

pp 83-83

5 - A critical re-evaluation of the Miocene mammal units in Western Europe: dispersal events and problems of correlation

pp 84-112

6 - Large mammals from the Vallesian of Spain

pp 113-126

7 - Trends in rodent assemblages from the Aragonian (early–middle Miocene) of the Calatayud-Daroca Basin, Aragon, Spain

pp 127-139

8 - The Late Miocene small mammal succession from France, with emphasis on the Rhône Valley localities

pp 140-164

9 - Late Miocene mammals from Central Europe

pp 165-190

10 - An overview on the Italian Miocene land mammal faunas

pp 191-204

11 - The Miocene large mammal succession in Greece

pp 205-237

12 - Chronology and mammal faunas of the Miocene Sinap Formation, Turkey

pp 238-264

13 - The Late Miocene small mammal succession in Ukraine

pp 265-272

PART III - Palaeoenvironments: non-mammalian evidence

pp 273-273

14 - Marine invertebrate (chiefly foraminiferal) evidence for the palaeogeography of the Oligocene–Miocene of western Eurasia, and consequences for terrestrial vertebrate migration

pp 274-308

15 - Palaeoclimatic implications of the energy hypothesis from Neogene corals of the Mediterranean region

pp 309-327

16 - Contribution to the knowledge of Neogene climatic changes in western and central Europe by means of non-marine molluscs

pp 328-354

17 - Sedimentary facies analysis in palaeoclimatic reconstructions. Examples from the Upper Miocene–Pliocene successions of south-central Tuscany (Italy)

pp 355-377

18 - Neogene vegetation changes in West European and West circum-Mediterranean areas

pp 378-388

PART IV - Palaeoenvironments: mammalian evidence

pp 389-389

19 - Shrews (Mammalia, Insectivora, Soricidae) as paleoclimatic indicators in the European Neogene

pp 390-396

20 - Mammal turnover and global climate change in the late Miocene terrestrial record of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Spain)

pp 397-412

21 - Palaeoenvironments of late Miocene primate localities in Macedonia, Greece

pp 413-435

22 - The paleoecology of the Pikermian Biome and the savanna myth

pp 436-453