Messinian Lago-Mare deposits near the Strait of Gibraltar (Malaga Basin, S Spain)

Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications

“…Among bivalves, the very rare Pisidium may indicate at least the presence of ephemeral freshwater bodies in the surroundings. Dreissenids and limnocardiids along with melanopsids and hydrobiids, among gastropods, point to a Lago-Mare biofacies (Esu, 2007;Guerra-Merchán et al, 2010). Overall, the Lago-Mare gastropod and bivalve assemblage from the Upper Messinian deposits of Moncucco is indicative of a shallow water environment with low (oligo-to mesohaline) salinity.…”

“…These genera possibly invaded the Mediterranean area from the Paratethys realm during the latest Messinian (Esu, 2007;Guerra-Merchán et al, 2010). Euxinicardium subodessae and Prosodacnomya sabbae are common in the Pontian deposits of the Paratethys, -5, 9-12, 15-18) and 5 mm (6-8, 13-14, 19-20).…”

Aproximación a la correlación marino-continental del Plioceno inferior en el Sur de España. El yacimiento de micromamíferos de Alhaurín el Grande-1 (Cuenca de Málaga, Cordillera Bética, España)

“…Outcrops of the upper unit have been noted only in the northeastern part of the basin, near the city of Málaga, and consist of conglomerates, sands and pelites deposited in alluvial and brackish environments. They provide oligohalyne ostracods and mollusks of Paratethys origin, characterizing the Lago-Mare type facies deposited in the Mediterranean during the latest Messinian at the end of the salinity crisis (Guerra-Merchán et al, 2008, 2010.…”

“…Magnetostratigraphic data from Pl-1 are available from an earlier work (Guerra-Merchán et al, 2010) showing that the unit is composed of a single reversed magnetozone. On the contrary, new data from the upper part of the Pl-2 and Pl-3 units are provided in the present study.…”

Nueva especie de ostrácodo del Plioceno de la Depresión del Guadalquivir (S.O. de España)

“…Decima, 1962;Ligios & Gliozzi, 2011) y de su origen (Gliozzi et al, 2017). En el este y sureste de España, el estudio de las asociaciones de ostrácodos ha permitido definir nuevas especies de este género (Van Harten, 1975) y, de forma especial, caracterizar la crisis de salinidad messiniense (Guerra-Merchán et al, 2010;Clauzon et al, 2015).…”