The PaleoHISTORY Miocene
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The PaleoHistory of the Mediterranean SeaIl n'est point possible de discuter et de comprendre la faune actuelle de la Méditerranée sans prendre en compte l'histoire géologique récente de cette mer, c'est-à-dire depuis le Miocène. A common approach to Mediterranean Plio-Pleistocene paleoecology in the last four decades has been the benthic bionomic model of the Endoume School. Mediterranean Neogene communities are considered similar to the present-day Mediterranean biocenoses. Furthermore, since the Neogene, they have comparable substrates and bathymetric requirements, parallel to the modern biocenoses, and play the same ecological role in the Mediterranean Basin (Pelosio & Raffi, 1973; Di Geronimo, 1975, 1985; Bernasconi, 1989; Bernasconi & Robba, 1993). Consequently, Mediterranean paleobiocenoses are interpreted and defined using the same criteria and the same characteristic living species used by the Endoume School. |
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