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A stratigraphic revision of the Paludi Formation, cropping out in Northern Calabria on the north‐eastern side of Sila Massif, has confirmed that it has been deposited between two main tectonic phases. Actually the formation is involved only by top to the north‐east thrusts, different from those separating the crystalline and ophiolitic nappes of Northern Calabria, and rests unconformably on the Sila Unit, the uppermost nappe of the tectonic stack. In the frame of the interpretation of Northern Calabria as a fragment of the Alps, the Paludi Formation play the role of a deposit post‐dating the eo‐alpine tectonic phases and pre‐dating the Apenninic orogenic transport. Therefore the Aquitanian age of the formation, obtained by nannofloras analyses, can be considered the minimum age to the Apulia‐verging orogenic transport, witnessed by top to north‐east thrusts. It fairly corresponds to the age referred to the Lucanian ocean closure.

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In the Gibraltar Arc, the age of the turbiditic formations capping the Mauretanian successions, deposited in the internal side of the Maghrebian Flysch Basin Domain and testifying to the foredeep stage of the basin occurring immediately before its deformation, has been re-examined using the calcareous nannoplankton. The base of the successions resulted to be not older than Chattian or Early Miocene, whereas the top is not older than Late Burdigalian. Therefore, the foredeep evolution and the deformation of the Mauretanian Sub-Domain started not before the Late Oligocene and the Late Burdigalian, respectively, and the Iberia-Africa collision occurred as from the Middle Miocene.