P. 3-8
GASTROPODS OF FAMILIES PLATYCERATIDAE AND MURCHISONIIDAE
FROM LOWER DEVONIAN OF PODILLYA

Andriy Danyliv

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
Hrushevskyj str., 4, UA-79005 Lviv, Ukraine

Shows monographic description and images of four typical types Platyceras (Platyostoma) cornutum (Hisinger, 1837), Platyceras (Platyostoma) disjunctum (Geibel, 1858), Murchisonia moniliformis (Lindström, 1884), Murchisonia demidoffi (Verneuil, 1841) gastropods from the Lower Devonian (tyverska series) skirts.
Key words: hastropody, Lower Devonian series, skirts.

P. 9-14
HUGE AMMONITES FINDS OF SUBFAMILY PUZOSINAE IN UPPER CENOMANIAN
OF NORTHEASTERN PART OF VOLYN-PODILLYA

Ihor Maryash, Yaroslav Kurepa

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
Grushevsky str, 4, UA – 79005, Lviv, Ukraine

Monographic description and images of ammonites similar to Austiniceras austeni (Sharpe, 1855), subfamily PUZOSINAE from the Upper Cenomanian of the northeastern part of Volyn-Podillya (Mylyatyn quarry of granular phosphorite) are given. This form described the first time from area of Volyn-Podillya.
Key words: Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian, ammonites, PUZOSINAE, Volyn-Podillya.

P. 15-20
ABOUT THE AGE OF STRYISKA SUITE OF UKRAINIAN CARPATHIANS

Roman Leschukh, Zenon Khevpa

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
Hrushevsky str., 4, UA-79005 Lviv, Ukraine

The analysis of the study foraminifera and calcareous plankton by different authors are given. It formed the basis for the establishment of stratification and geological age Stryiska suite in the reference section of Skybova zone along the river of Dniester and a description and image of the first discoveries in the transition layers of Holovninska and Stryiska suites, zonal for the upper Turonian species Inoceramus falcatus Heinz. are submited. Based on the study it was concluded that the stratigraphic boundary between the local stratigraphic units is between Turonian and Coniacian and therefore the first age – Cenomanian–Turonian, and the second – Coniacian–Datian.
Key words: Ukrainian Carpathians, Skybova zone, Stryiska suite, inoceramids.

P. 21-27
AN OCCURRENCE OF TERPSINOË AMERICANA (BAILEY) RALFS
IN THE HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS OF THE BLACK SEA

¹Yuija Tymchenko, ²Olexandra Olshtynska

¹Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, Ukraine
²Institute of Geological Science of the NAS of Ukraine,
O. Gonchar st., 55 b, UA-01054, Kyiv, Ukraine

Holocene diatom assemblages with the Terpsinoë americana were found firstly in the Black Sea sediments, the North-Western shelf. This oceanic littoral specie was noun in the Black Sea Miocene flora. There is found in the Lower Holocene sediments not far from Tendra beach and in the Lower-Middle Holocene ones near Dzharylgach island in original assemblag-es with 85-95% Campylodiscus spp., the Northern coastal part of Karkinitskyi bay. T. americana is the stratigraphical marker of synchronous Holocene deposits of the Atlantic optima in the Baltic Sea.
Key words: Diatom, the Black Sea, Holocene, Terpsinoë Americana.

P. 28-36
SOME SYRINGOPORA FROM THE LOWER CARBONIFEROUS OF SOUTHERN
NEAR-EDGE ZONE OF THE DNIEPER-DONETS DEPRESSION

Andrey Klevtsovskiy, Victor Ogar

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,
90, Vasylkivska str., 03022, Kyiv, Ukraine

Two species of syrinhoporid corals: Syringopora intermixa Reed, 1927 and Syringopora geniculata Phi l l ips, 1836 from the Lower Carboniferous of southern near-edge zone of the Dnieper-Donets depression are described. These species confirm Visian age of the widespread here carbonate rocks.
Key words: Syringopora, Visйan, Dnieper-Donets depression.

P. 37-53
REGIOSTAGE PALEOGENE SOUTH UKRAINE

Boris Zernetskyy, Tamara Riabokon

Institute of Geological Science of the NAS of Ukraine,
O. Gonchar st., 55 b, UA-01054, Kyiv, Ukraine

Characters of the Paleogene regional stratigraphic units of the Southern Ukraine are given in article. Decisions of Interdepartmental Stratigraphic Commission of the USSR and the Ukrainian Regional Interdepartmental Stratigraphic Commission on Paleogene stratigraphy of the Crimea-Caucasus region and territory of the Ukraine have been analyzed. As a result volumes of the Belokamenskian and the Kachian regiostages of the Paleocene, of the Bakhchisaraian, the Simferopolian, the Novopavlovkian, the Kumian and the Almian regiostages of the Eocene are determined by zonal assemblages of plankton foraminiferes, nanoplankton and large foraminiferes and are characterized by associations of dinocysts and macrofauna. The Planorbellian, the Molochnaian and the Kerleutian regiostages of the Oligocene are interpreted as reflection of stages of the Majkop basin geological history and succession of its fauna and flora. Limits of the Cretaceous/Paleogene, the Paleogene/Neogene and the Eocene/Oligocene are deter-mined geochronologically at the regional scale of the Ukraine. Based on modern correlation of the Crimea-Caucasus zonal scale with the biochronological scale of the ISC uncoincidence of some limits of regional stratigraphic units of the Southern Ukraine with the stage limits of ISC have been revealed.
Key words: stratigraphy, Paleogene, regiostage, South Ukraine.

P. 54-65
SPECIFIC LATE MIOCENE OSTRACOD ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE SOUTHERN UKRAINE

Vladimir Kovalenko

Institute of the Geological Science of NASU,
O.Gonchar str., 55b, UA-01601, Kyiv, Ukraine

The records of ostracod association occurrence in the Late Miocene for the south of Ukraine, i. e. in the Pontian, Maeotian and Sarmatian regiostages in the south of Ukraine (the lower Sarmatian (Volynian regiosubstage) – the middle Miocene) are generalized. The study of the numerous Miocene ostracod associations from the different boreholes and outcrops confirms that the stratigraphical resolution of late Miocene ostracods from the south of Ukraine is a regiosubstage.The recognized late Miocene ostracod associations enable to separate the Pontian, Maeotian and Sarmatian from the south of Ukraine more detail.
Key words: Sarmatian, meotys, bluff, regiostage, rehiopid'yarus complex, South Ukraine.

P. 66-73
NEW REPRESENTATIVES OF FORAMINIFERA FROM TARCHANIAN DEPOSITS
OF THE SOUTHERN UKRAINE (LOWER MIOCENE)

Tatyana Ivanova

Research Institute of Geology of Oles Honchar National University of Dnipropetrovsk
K. Marks av., 36, UA - 49044 Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

Three new taxa of benthic foraminifera (one subspecies and two species) are described: Glabratella tarchanensis cristata subsp. nov., Glabratella inflata sp. nov., Floresina krash-eninnikovi sp. nov. They are found in the Tarchanian regiostage deposits of the Crimea and his age analogues on the southern slope of the Ukrainian Shield (Tomakovka Beds).
Key words: Foraminifera, Glabratella, Floresina, Tarchanian regiostage, Tomakovka Beds, Lower Miocene, Southern Ukraine, Eastern Paratethys.

P. 74-82
DESTRIBUTION OF BRACHIOPODS IN THE SILURIAN OF VOLYNO-PODOLIA

Yulia Makhmoudi, Volodymyr Grytsenko

National Natural History Museum of the NAS of Ukraine,
Bogdana Khmelnitskogo, 15, UA-01601, Kyiv, Ukraine

The article deal with distribution of brachiopods through Silurian sequences of the Volyno-Podillia's. Dynamics of sea facies and its influence on variety of brachiopod`s species was details considered. At least three cycles of deposits accumulation are recognized in the Silurian section: Yaruzky, Malinovetsky and Rukshinsky. Also, the relatively deep-see shelf was optimum for brachiopod`s vital condition was noted.
Key words: brachiopods, Silurian, facies, Volynjo-Podolia.

P. 83-97
STRATIGRAPHY OF THE CRETACEOUS DEPOSITS WITHIN THE UKRAINIAN PERI-BLACK SEA REGION.
ARTICLE 1. LOWER CRETACEOUS

Igor Ischenko

NAK “Naftogas Ukraine” DP “Naukanaftogas”
Kyivska 8,UA – 08132, Kyiv, Vyishneve

Subdivision and correlation of the Lower Cretaceous sedimentary sequences within the Ukrainian Peri-Black Sea region are made applying comprehensive study, revision and critical analysis of the all available data on paleontology, stratigraphy and lithology of those sedimentary rocks. In the result of structural and facies zoning of the territory three provinces, namely the South Ukrainian Monocline, Sivash, and North Azov ones have been distinguished. It is proposed new stratigraphic chart for the Lower Cretaceous rocks subdivision of this region.
Key words: Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, subdivision and correlation, structural and facies zoning, regional stratigraphic chart, the Ukrainian Peri-Black Sea region.

P. 98-107
RUGOSA’S COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION
IN SILURIAN STRATIGRAPHICAL UNITS OF VOLYN-PODILLIA

Volodymyr Grytsenko, Anastasia Kiselevich

National Natural History Museum of the NAS of Ukraine,
Bogdana Khmelnitskogo, 15, UA-01601, Kyiv, Ukraine

In the article complex approach to fossils study is emphasized. It is need for getting as possible exact Stratigraphical division of sequence and correlation of Silurian deposits of Volyno-Podillia. The Schema of facial dynamic is shown. The environmental effect for changing Species diversity of Rugosans is discussed. The sequence is divided on three local series: Yaruga, Malinovtsy and Rukshin. The shallow water conditions were most favorable for Rugosa corals communities. Facies dependency of benthos limited it universality for stratigraphical arrangements.
Key words: Rugosa corals, Silurian, local stratigraphical scale, facies control, Volyn-Podillia.

P. 108-114
BIVALVIA OF THE MIDDLE SARMATIAN IN DEMONSTRATIVE SECTION
FROM THE GUBINIKHA VILLAGE (DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, UKRAINE)

Vadym Stephansky, Dmitry Starin

Research Institute of Geology of Oles Honchar National University of Dnipropetrovsk
K. Marks av., 36, UA - 49044 Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

The criteria of the Middle Sarmatian stratification in demonstrative section near Gubinikha village are specified. The Novomoskovsky, Vasilivsky and Dnepropetrovsky Beds are characterized by malacofauna. Brief monographic descriptions of the most characteristic mollusks of this section are made.
Key words: Bivalvia, Venerupis, Obsoletiforma, Plicatiforma, Mactra, Sarmatian regiostage, Borisphenian gulf, Western Paratethys.

P. 115-121
THE ANATOMIC STRUCTURE OF CARBON PLANTS TRUNKS IN UKRAINE,
THEIR FUNCTION IN THE FORMATION OF COAL AND ESTIMATION OF PHYTOMASS COMPRESSION
IN FORMATION OF PEAT AND COAL

Vasil Uziuk, Helen Schwartzman

Lviv National Ivan Franko University Lviv,
Hrushevskoho str,4 79005

In this work were described the results of determination of the effectiveness of phytomass compression by macroscopic, geological, comparative methods in different conditions of occurrence of the remains of carbon plants, and also the study of transparent microsections of diferrent carbon tissues of fitoleyms and petrification by macropaleobotanical comparative and micropaleobotanical anatomy – morphological methods. Discovered the influence of inorganic rocks mineral structure that constitute the nucleus frag-ments of plants or fill the cavity of tissue cells and intensity of their dissolution under formation of peat and coal on intensity of phytomass compression.
Key words: carbon, plant, peat, coal, phytomass, in formation of peat and coal, anatomy, dissolution, compression

P. 122-124
LESHCHUKH ROMAN YOSYPOVYCH (FOR THE 70-TH BIRTHDAY)

Hotsanyuk H., Danyliv А., Maryash I., Shainoga I.

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
Grushevsky str. 4, UA – 79005, Lviv, Ukraine

P. 125-126
VOLODYMYR YURIYOVYCH ZOSIMOVYCH (FOR THE 80-TH BIRTHDAY)

Leschukh R.

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
Grushevsky str. 4, UA – 79005, Lviv, Ukraine
E-mail: r_leschukh@mail.ru

P. 127-128
LEONID IVANOVYCH KONSTANTYNENKO (FOR THE 70-TH BIRTHDAY)

Leschukh R., Velikanov V., Poletaev V., Danyliv A.

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
Grushevsky str. 4, UA – 79005, Lviv, Ukraine
E-mail: r_leschukh@mail.ru

P. 129-136
FIRST WEST-UKRAINIAN GEOLOGIST YULIAN MEDVEDTSKYI (FOR 95-TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH)

Leschukh R., Svynko Y.

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
Grushevsky str. 4, UA – 79005, Lviv, Ukraine
E-mail: r_leschukh@mail.ru

P. 137-141
VENHLINSKYI IVAN VOLODYMYROVYCH (FOR THE 100-TH BIRTHDAY)

Leschukh R.

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
Grushevsky str. 4, UA – 79005, Lviv, Ukraine
E-mail: r_leschukh@mail.ru