TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Ioan I. BUCUR
CELEBRATION SESSION
Professor Ovidiu Dragastan at 70 years
Ioan I. BUCUR
Professor Ovidiu N. Dragastan: a career in Geology and Paleontology
Mihai E. POPA
Laudatio University Professor Doctor Ovidiu Dragastan at 70 years
Leonard OLARU
Reply of Professor Ovidiu Dragastan
Ovidiu DRAGASTAN
SYMPOSIUM CONTRIBUTIONS
Records of Tapiroidea GRAY 1825 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Kazakhstan – An overview
Bolat U. BAYSHASHOV & Emmanuel M.E. BILLIA
Foraminiferal assemblages and Early Miocene paleoenvironments in the NW Transylvanian Basin
Claudia BELDEAN, Sorin FILIPESCU, Carlo AROLDI, Gheorghe IORDACHE & Raluca BINDIU
Occurrences of Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis (JÄGER, 1839) (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) in Eurasia – An account
Emmanuel M.E. BILLIA
Eugenia splendens PETRESCU, G. MARGARIT et M. MARGARIT 1976, in the Bulgarian paleoflora
Vladimir BOZUKOV
Micropalaeontologic content of the Sarmatian from southern Moldavian Platform – a backbulge depozone
Mihai BRÂNZILĂ, Gabriel CHIRILĂ & Mihaela JITARU
In Sahelo-Saharian Africa on the track of a new Cradle of Mankind. En Afrique Sahelo- Saharienne sur la piste d’un nouveau berceau de l’humanité
Michel BRUNET
On the presence of green algae (Dasycladales, Bryopsidales) in the Middle Miocene deposits from Podeni (western border of the Transylvanian Basin, Romania)
Ioan I. BUCUR, Jean-Paul SAINT MARTIN, Sorin FILIPESCU, Emanoil SĂSĂRAN & George PLEŞ
Microfacies and microfossils of the Upper Tithonian–Lower Berriasian calcareous klippes from Ampoita (west of Alba Iulia, Romania)
Camelia CATINCUŢ, Mihai MICHETIUC & Ioan I. BUCUR
Calcareous nannofossils at the paleogene – neogene boundary in Bucovina, Romania: Râsca – Vatra Moldovitei area
Carmen M. CHIRA, Doru T. JURAVLE, Alin IGRIŢAN & Mirela V. POPA
Calcareous nannoplankton across the paleogene–neogene boundary in the Moldovita–Paltinu area (Bucovina, Romania)
Carmen M. CHIRA, Alin IGRIŢAN, Doru T. JURAVLE, Florin FLOREA & Mirela V. POPA
Some morphological features of the leaf epidermis in fossil species and related present-day vegetal species
Gabriel C. CORNEANU & Mihaela CORNEANU
A skull of Praemegaceros pliotarandoides (Cervidae, Mammalia) from the Taman Peninsula (South-West Russia)
Roman CROITOR
Contributions to the Pontian flora of southwest Oltenia (Romania)
Florina DIACONU
Stromatolites and calcareous algae of Münder Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) from NW Germany
Ovidiu N. DRAGASTAN & Detlev K. RICHTER
Preliminary report on the microfacies analyses of the hardgrounds and condensed horizons associated to the Middle Jurassic deposits from Tatarului Gorges (Bucegi Mountains, SE Carpathians)
Mihaela GRADINARU, Iuliana LAZĂR & Cristina E. PANAIOTU
Kimmeridgian–Lower Tithonian ammonite assemblages from Ghilcos-Haghimas, Massif (Eastern Carpathians, Romania)
Dan GRIGORE
Les prémisses géologiques et paléontologiques de la théorie darwiniste
Dan GRIGORESCU
Fossil woods in the collections of Drobeta - Tr. Severin Museum
Eugenia IAMANDEI, Stănilă IAMANDEI & Florina DIACONU
Petrified wood of Tetraclinoxylon from Caprioara Valley, Feleac, Cluj (Middle Miocene, Romania)
Stănilă IAMANDEI, Eugenia IAMANDEI & Mirela Sabou DUMITRESCU
About the Formation with Cryptomactra in Palas area, Iasi: fossil content and lithology
Viorel IONESI & Florentina PASCARIU
The systematic position of the foraminiferal genus Cubanina PALMER, 1936 and its relationship to Colominella POPESCU, 1998
Michael A. KAMINSKI & Claudia G. CETEAN
Contribution a l’étude du genre Deinotherium KAUP, 1829 du Miocčne supérieur sur le territoire de la république de Moldova
Alexandru LUNGU & Theodor OBADĂ
Holocene calcareous nannoplankton in the inner shelf of the NW Black Sea
Mihaela C. MELINTE-DOBRINESCU & Andrei BRICEAG
Turonian marker foraminifera associations from the southern part of the Eastern Carpathians: Dambovita Valley–Intorsura Buzaului Area
Theodor NEAGU
Upper Turolian Sciuroidea (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Republic of Moldova
Igor NICOARĂ
Damuc series of Haghimas syncline from East Carpathians, Romania. New petrographical and palynostratigraphical data
Leonard OLARU, Constantin GRASU & Marinela CHIHAIA
Field and laboratory techniques in plant compressions: an integrated approach
Mihai E. POPA
Early Jurassic ovipositories on bennettitalean leaves from Romania
Mihai E. POPA & Andreea ZAHARIA
Middle Miocene globigerinas of Romania
Gheorghe POPESCU & Ileana-Monica CRIHAN
Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental interpretation on the sarmatian deposits of Supanu Formation from Comanesti Basin (Bacau county)
Daniel ŢABĂRĂ & Gabriel CHIRILĂ
Reassessment of the spatial extent of the Middle Member, Densus,-Ciula Formation (Maastrichtian), Hateg Basin, Romania
Stefan VASILE, Zoltán CSIKI & Dan GRIGORESCU
Middle-late Miocene snakes from the Pannonian Basin
Márton VENCZEL