1. Introduction J. Agustí

, L. Rook and P. Andrews

Part I. Palaeogeography of the Circum-Mediterranean Region: 2. Mediterranean and Paratethys palaeogeography during Oligocene and Miocene Fred Rö

gl

3. Pliocene tephra correlations between East African hominid localities, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea Peter B. deMenocal and Francis H. Brown

4. Climatic perspectives for neogene environmental reconstructions Eileen M. O'Brien and Charles R. Peters

Part II. Miocene Mammalian Successions: 5. A critical re-evaluation of the Miocene mammals units in western Europe: dispersal events and the problems of correlation J. Agustí

, L. Cabrera and M. Garcé

s

6. Large mammals from the Vallesian of Spain Jorge Morales, Manuel Nieto, Meike Kholer and Salvador Moya-Sola

7. Trends in rodent assemblages from the Aragonian (Early-Middle Miocene) of the Calatayud-Daroca basin, Aragon, Spain R. Daams, A. J. van der Meulen, P. Pelaez-Campomanes and M. A. Alvarez-Sierra

8. The Late Miocene small mammal succession from France, with emphasis on the Rhone Valley localities Pierre Mein

9. Late Miocene mammals from central Europe Jens Lorenz Franzen and Gerharrd Storch

10. An overview on the Italian Miocene land mammal faunas Lorenzo Rook, Laura Abbazzi and Burkhart Engesser

11. The Miocene large mammal succession in Greece Louis de Bonis and George D. Koufos

12. Chronology and mammal faunas of the Miocene Sinap formation, Turkey Juha Pekka Lunkka, Mikael Fortelius, John Kappelman and Sevket Sen

13. The Late Miocene small mammal succession in Ukraine Valentin A. Nesin and Vadim A. Topachevsky

Part III. Palaeoenvironments: Non-Mammalian Evidence: 14. Marine invertebrate (chiefly foraminiferal) evidence for the palaeogeography of the Oligocene-Miocene of western Eurasia, and consequences for terrestrial vertebrate migration Robert Wynn Jones

15. Palaeoclimatic implications of the energy hypothesis from Neogene corals of the Mediterranean region Brian R. Rosen

16. Contribution to the knowledge of Neogene climatic changes in western and central Europe by means of non-marine molluscs Daniela Esu

17. Sedimentary facies analysis in palaeoclimatic reconstructions. Examples from the Upper Miocene-Pliocene successions of south-central Tuscany (Italy) Marco Benvenuti, Mauro Papini and Giovanni Testa

18. Neogene vegetation changes in western European and west circum-Mediterranean areas Jean-Pierre Suc, Sé

verine Fauquette, Mostefa Bessegik, Adele Bertini, Zhuo Zheng, Georges Clauzon, Danica Suballyova, Fiomena Diniz, Pierre Quezel, Najat Feddi, Martine Clet, Ezzedine Bessais, Naima Bachiri Taoufiq, Henriette Meon and Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout

Part IV. Palaeoenvironments: Mammalian Evidence: 19. Shrews (Mammalia, Insectivora, Soricidae) as palaeoclimatic indicators in the European Neogene Jelle W.F. Reumer

20. Mammal turnover and global climate change in the Late Micoene terrestrial record of the Valles- Penedes basin (NE Spain) Jorge Agustí

, Lluis Cabrera, Miguel Garcé

s and Manel Llenas

21. Palaeoenvironments of Late Miocene primate localites in Macedonia, Greece L. de Bonis, G. Bouvrain and G. D. Koufos

22. The paleoecology of the Pikermian biome and the savanna myth Nikos Solounias, J. Michael Plavcan, Jay Quade and Lawrence Witmer

23. Vicariance biogeography and paleoecology of Eurasian Miocine hominoid primates Peter Andrews and Raymond L. Bernor

24. Conclusion J. Agustí

, L. Rook and P. Andrews.