INTEGRATED PALYNOLOGY OF THE UPPER CRETACEOUS IN CRIMEA, UKRAINE

Abstract

The author provides new data for the paleontological and stratigraphic understanding of the Upper Cretaceous formations of the Crimean Peninsula. Within the classic Bakhchisaray region 24 samples from six sections (Cenomanian-Maastrichtian) were studied. About 130 palynomorphs have been identified, 11 associations (spore-pollen and dinoflagellate) were differentiated and correlated with nannozones, foram zones and macropaleontological zones. The study confirms that during the Senonian the Crimean Peninsula belonged to the northern nearshore-neritic region of the Tethys and on land to the boreal Normapolles Phytogeographic Province.