title: The Miocene Climatic Optimum at the interface of epicontinental sea and large continent: A case study from the Middle Miocene of the Eastern Paratethys
abstract: The Miocene Climate Optimum (MCO) and the subsequent Miocene Climate Transition (MCT) are important biotic, environmental and geologic events. Here we address whether this holds true for the epicontinental Eastern Paratethys Sea (today's Black – Caspian Sea region). Two Tarkhanian – lower Chokrakian sequences of Middle Miocene age in the Kerch Peninsula were investigated using foraminifera, calcareous nannofossils, molluscs, fish otoliths, spores and pollen, oxygen and carbon stable isotopes and
journal: Marine Micropaleontology