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The Evolution of the Market of the Hungarian Printing Industry after 1989: The End of a Success Story?
Paleogeographic evolution of the Southern Pannonian Basin: 40Ar/39Ar age constraints on the Miocene continental series of notthern Croatia
The Pannonian Basin, originating during the
Early Miocene, is a large extensional basin incorporated
between Alpine, Carpathian and Dinaride fold-thrust belts.
Back-arc extensional tectonics triggered deposition of up to
500-m-thick continental fluvio-lacustrine deposits distributed
in numerous sub-basins of the Southern Pannonian
Basin. Extensive andesitic and dacitic volcanism accompanied
the syn-rift deposition and caused a number of
pyroclastic intercalations. Here, we analyze two volcanic
ash layers located at the base and top of the continental
series. The lowermost ash from Mt. Kalnik yielded an
40Ar/39Ar age of 18.07 ± 0.07 Ma. This indicates that the
marine-continental transition in the Slovenia-Zagorje
Basin, coinciding with the onset of rifting tectonics in the
Southern Pannonian Basin, occurs roughly at the Eggenburgian/
Ottnangian boundary of the regional Paratethys
time scale. This age proves the synchronicity of initial
rifting in the Southern Pannonian Basin with the beginning
of sedimentation in the Dinaride Lake System. Beside
geodynamic evolution, the two regions also share a biotic
evolutionary history: both belong to the same ecoregion,
which we designate here as the Illyrian Bioprovince. The
youngest volcanic ash level is sampled at the Glina and
Karlovac sub-depressions, and both sites yield the same
40Ar/39Ar age of 15.91 ± 0.06 and 16.03 ± 0.06 Ma,
respectively. This indicates that lacustrine sedimentation in
the Southern Pannonian Basin continued at least until the
earliest Badenian. The present results provide not only
important bench marks on duration of initial synrift in the
Pannonian Basin System, but also deliver substantial
backbone data for paleogeographic reconstructions in
Central and Southeastern Europe around the Early–Middle
Miocene transition
A revision of the genus Europicardium
The cardiid genus Europicardium Popov, 1977 was introduced for a small group of Cenozoic species from Europe, but remained almost unknown in the western literature until about 15 years ago, and its type species, Cardium multicostatum Brocchi, 1814, continued to be cited mainly as Trachycardium multicostatum. Many records are available for this species from the Miocene of Europe, but most are based on several distinct, often misidentified species. In the present revision, based on museum material, the taxonomy of Europicardium is discussed and the identity of its type species is fixed. Seven species are assigned to Europicardium: E. multicostatum (Brocchi, 1814), E. miorotundatum (Sacco, 1899) (lectotype designated), E. miocaudatum (Sacco, 1899), E. polycolpatum (Cossmann & Peyrot, 1912), E. pseudomulticostatum (Zhizhchenko, 1934), E. badeniense (Kokay, 1996) and E. hoernesi sp. nov. from the middle Miocene of Austria. However, literature records and museum material suggest the occurrence of additional species and the need for further investigation. The oldest record of Europicardium is from the early Miocene of the Aquitaine Basin, from where the genus likely spread into the Mediterranean and throughout the Paratethys. Europicardium reached a maximum diversity in the early middle Miocene (Badenian) of the Paratethys, probably in relation to the Miocene Climatic Optimum, and also with the complex and variable palaeogeography of the Paratethys, which promoted differentiation and diversity. Europicardium disappeared from the Paratethys when it became a freshwater basin in the late Miocene, and from the Mediterranean due to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. The last European species was E. multicostatum, which arrived in the Mediterranean from the adjacent Atlantic with the post-Messinian recolonization, and became extinct in the Pleistocene due to climatic deterioration. At the present day, Europicardium occurs in the tropical waters of West Africa, with three specie