Ostracods and Conditions of Formation of the Plevaka Section (Southern Azov Region) in the Late Kuyalnikian (Early Pleistocene)
Journal: Стратиграфия Геологическая корреляция / Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation
Year: 2025

The upper part of the Plevaka section (Taman Peninsula, Krasnodar Region, Russia) yielded an ostracod assemblage that for the first time indicates late Kujalnikian (Gelasian) age of the deposits. The association of Cyprideis pontica–Pontoniella acuminata–Scottia tumida is described as a new biostratigraphic unit (“beds with fauna”) for the Early Pleistocene of the Kerch-Taman Region. The upper clayey member of the section is shown to accumulate in an estuary with an unstable salinity ranging aro