Reconciling the stratigraphy and depositional history of the Lycian orogen-top basins, SW Anatolia Cihat Alçiçek, M. Jiménez Moreno, Gonzalo Correlation Synchronicity Palaeoenvironments Mammals Post-orogeny Taurides Terrestrial fossil records from the SWAnatolian basins are crucial both for regional correlations and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. By reassessing biostratigraphic constraints and incorporating new fossil data, we calibrated and reconstructed the late Neogene andQuaternary palaeoenvironments within a regional palaeogeographical framework. The culmination of the Taurides inSWAnatolia was followed by a regional crustal extension from the late Tortonian onwards that created a broad array of NE-trending orogen-top basins with synchronic associations of alluvial fan, fluvial and lacustrine deposits. The terrestrial basins are superimposed on the upper Burdigalian marine units with a c. 7 myr of hiatus that corresponds to a shift from regional shortening to extension. The initial infill of these basins is documented by a transition from marginal alluvial fans and axial fluvial systems into central shallow-perennial lakes coinciding with a climatic shift from warm/humid to arid conditions. The basal alluvial fan deposits abound in fossil macro-mammals of an early Turolian (MN11–12; late Tortonian) age. The Pliocene epoch in the region was punctuated by subhumid/humid conditions resulting in a rise of local base levels and expansion of lakes as evidenced by marsh-swamp deposits containing diverse fossilmammal assemblages indicating late Ruscinian (lateMN15; late Zanclean) age 2020-01-14T08:25:17Z 2020-01-14T08:25:17Z 2019-08-03 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Alçiçek, M. C., Mayda, S., Johan, H., Boulton, S. J., Neubauer, T. A., Alçiçek, H., ... & Murray, A. M. (2019). Reconciling the stratigraphy and depositional history of the Lycian orogen-top basins, SW Anatolia. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 99(4), 551-570. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/58707 10.1007/s12549-019-00394-3 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Springer Nature