SMALL MAMMAL FAUNAS FROM THE MIKULINO (= EEMIAN) MARINE AND LIMAN DEPOSITS OF THE BLACK SEA

摘要: Up to now, there have been only rare finds of small mammal remains from the marine and liman (brackish estuary) Pleistocene deposits located in the Mediterranean. In Eastern Europe (in the Black Sea region), some unique localities related to the different intervals of the Pleistocene have been found. Two of them correlate with the Eemian (= Mikulino) Interglacial and with the Karangat transgression of the Black Sea. In these localities the small mammal bones were recovered together with the rich brackishwater mollusk remains and in secure geological context.