“…The ages attributed to the Khersonian/Maeotian boundary in these terrestrial records strongly depended on previous (widely varying) age estimates of the overlying Pontian deposits and consequently arrive at a broad range of ~9 Ma, Pevzner and Vangengeim (); 9.4 Ma, Vangengeim, Lungu, and Tesakov () and a radio‐isotopic age of 9.3 Ma; 9.6 Ma, Vangengeim and Tesakov (); 6.4 Ma, Tesakov, Titov, Syromyatnikova, Danilov, and Frolov (); 7.8/8.2 Ma, Tesakov et al. (). The magnetic polarity patterns of the continental sections do, however, contain some recurrent patterns: the Khersonian is commonly dominated by a long normal polarity interval (sections Poksheshty, El'Dari, Starya Kubanka, Yurievka, Tiaginka, Krivoj Rog, Tiaginka and Kajnary in Pevzner and Vangengeim (); El'Dari section, in Vangengeim et al.…”