Three very different records are combined here to reconstruct the evolution of environments in the Cantabrian Region during the Upper Pleistocene, covering ~35.000 years. Two of these records come from Antoliñako Koba (Bizkaia, Spain), an exceptional prehistoric deposit comprising 9 chrono-cultural units (Aurignacian to Epipaleolithic). The palaeoecological signal of small-vertebrate communitie...

The present study represents a detailed systematic of obtained ostracods in sixty three samples from an outcrop section the Shiranish Formation (Campanian – Maastrichtian), Dukan area, Kurdistan, northern Iraq. Thirty ostracod species belonging to twenty one genera are found, whereas nineteen previously recorded. Eleven new described detected, which represented Bairdia dukanensis sp. nov., Bair...