Abstract
Abstract The Middle Miocene fauna from Belometchetskaya, North Caucasus, provides an important biostratigraphiclink that permits refinement of correlations between the European land mammal zones (MN zones) and the faunal ages of China. This study concentrates on a review of the mammalian fauna from Belometchetskaya because a certain degree of confusion has entered the literature regarding its correlation to the MN sequence (it has been variously correlated to MN 4, MN 5 or MN 6) as well as its position within the Miocene (Early Miocene or Middle Miocene). It is concluded that the faunal elements hitherto considered to be of Oligocene age are in fact typical of the Middle Miocene and that the best correlation of the fauna to the European sequence is to MN 6. This means that Belometchetskaya is close in age to Sansan (France), Pasalar and Candir (Turkey), Koujiacun (China), Chinji (Pakistan) and Fort Ternan (Kenya).
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