Paratethis is an ancient ocean (sea), stretching "from Paris to Altai" [1] in the early Cenozoic era. From Tethys it was separated by the ridge of the Alps, Carpathians, Taurus, and the Caucasus. The Black , Caspian and Aral Sea are fragments of Paratethis. This ocean also included the Pannonian Sea on the territory of modern Hungary . In ancient times, Paratethys communicated with the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.
The term “Paratethis” was introduced by the Russian geologist Vladimir Laskarev in 1924.
Content
- 1 Geological history
- 2 fauna
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Geological History
Formed 34 million years ago.
25 million years ago, the north of Paratethis is designated as the Maykop Sea [2] , which stretched "from France to the Aral Sea " [3] .
14-10 million years ago ( Miocene ) Paratethis became isolated and turned into an isolated Sarmatian sea (from Austria to Turkmenistan) [4] .
Faded 5 million years ago ( Messinian peak salinity ).
Fauna
Up to 10-5 million years ago, in the eastern part of Paratetis, isolated as the Sarmatian Sea , baleen whales of the cetotherium (Cetotherium) were found, their fossils were found in particular in the south of Ukraine (Kherson, Nikolaev, Odessa, Zaporizhia regions), in Crimea ( Kerch) [5] and the North Caucasus and Ciscaucasia (Stavropol Territory, Krasnodar Territory (Maykop)). [6]
Notes
- ↑ Is it true that Adygea is at the bottom of the ancient sea?
- ↑ Primeval Era
- ↑ What was in place of Crimea in the Cenozoic era in the Paleogene period
- ↑ Brief History of the Caspian Basin
- ↑ Gol'din P., Startsev D., Krakhmalnaya T. The anatomy of the Late Miocene baleen whale Cetotherium riabinini from Ukraine // Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. - 2014. - T. 59 , No. 4 . - P. 795-814.
- ↑ Tarasenko KK, Lopatin AV New baleen whale genera (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the Miocene of the Northern Caucasus and Ciscaucasia: 2. Vampalus gen. nov. from the Middle – Late Miocene of Chechnya and Krasnodar Region // Paleontological Journal. - 2012. - Vol. 46, No. 6 . - P. 620-629. - DOI : 10.1134 / S003103011206010X .