FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Late Pleistocene to Recent ostracod assemblages from the western Black Sea BT AF BOOMER, Ian GUICHARD, Francois LERICOLAIS, Gilles AS 1:1;2:2;3:3; FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-DOP-DCB-GM-LES; C1 Univ Birmingham, Sch Geog Earth & Environm Sci, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England. CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, LSCE,Lab Sci Climate & Environm, F-91198 Gif Sur Yvette, France. IFREMER, Ctr Brest, Lab Environm Sedimentaires, F-29280 Plouzane, France. C2 UNIV BIRMINGHAM, UK CEA, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-DOP-DCB-GM-LES IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-europe IF 0.719 TC 31 TU Centre national de la recherche scientifique Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00025/13646/10887.pdf LA English DT Article CR BLASON MD 139 / ASSEMBLAGE - 1 BO Le Suroît Marion Dufresne DE ;Ponto-Caspian;Black Sea;Ostracoda;Pleistocene;Holocene AB During the last glacial phase the Black Sea basin was isolated from the world's oceans due to the lowering of global sea-levels. As sea-levels rose during the latest glacial and early Holocene period, the Black Sea was once again connected to the eastern Mediterranean via the Dardanelles-Marmara-Bosporus seaway. In recent years, trace element and stable isotope analyses of ostracod assemblages have yielded important details regarding the hydrological evolution of the Black Sea during these events. Despite this focus on the geochemical signatures of the ostracods, little if any attention has been paid to the taxonomic composition of the ostracod assemblages themselves and there are notably few publications on the sub-littoral fauna of this important water body. We present a summary of the most abundant ostracod taxa of the Black Sea during the late glacial to early Holocene phase (dominated by the Candonidae, Leptocytheridae and Loxoconchidae) and chart their response to the subsequent environmental changes in the early Holocene with the pre-connection, low salinity 'lacustrine' fauna being replaced by one with a more Mediterranean aspect. Many of these taxa are illustrated using SEM for the first time, providing an important initial step in establishing taxonomic stability within Black Sea ostracod studies and noting faunal similarities with neighbouring areas, such as the Caspian Sea. PY 2010 PD DEC SO Journal Of Micropalaeontology SN 0262-821X PU Geological Soc Publ House VL 29 UT 000285456700003 BP 119 EP 133 DI 10.1144/0262-821X10-003 ID 13646 ER EF