The Southern Rhodope Core Complex is a wide metamorphic dome exhumed in the northern Aegean as a result of large-scale extension from mid-Eocene to mid-Miocene times. Its roughly triangular shape is bordered on the SW by the Jurassic and Cretaceous metamorphic units of the Serbo-Macedonian in the Chalkidiki peninsula and on the N by the eclogite bearing gneisses of the Sideroneron massif. The m...

A new record of the genus Naja Laurenti, 1768 is described from latest Miocene Solnechnodolsk locality in Russia. It assigned to N. romani (Hoffstetter, 1939), largest European cobra, which disappeared Europe before end Miocene. The first evidence survival cobras Eastern Europe, points existence a Caucasian refugium during late large size vertebra cobra indicates that it belonged one specimens ...

Despite the abundance of seagrass-related deposits in geological record, seagrass macrofossils are scattered time and space, due to low preservation potential marine angiosperms. Fossil impressions, mainly rhizomes occur Messinian (late Miocene) marl beds intercalated cross-bedded bioclastic limestones Guadalquivir Basin near Alcalá de Guadaíra southern Spain. Vegetative characters indicate tha...