Interglacials are identified on land or in shallow epicontinental seas by their paleontology.
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Species limited to a single epicontinental sea on a given landmass were severely affected.
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Shallow shelf seas and epicontinental seas existed in which evaporites and limestones were deposited.
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A very warm epicontinental sea chalky sediments were laid down right up to the Maastrichtian.
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Ancient sand dunes of a broad desert met with the salty waters of a shallow, epicontinental sea, producing examples of cross-stratification.
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A global drop in sea level at the end of the Devonian reversed early in the Carboniferous; this created the widespread epicontinental seas and carbonate deposition of the Mississippian.
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Its habitat was apparently shallow or epicontinental seas, as evidenced by its associated fauna, the cartilaginous fish " Pseudocorax ", " Turritella vertibroides ".