The fossil record of climate changes in the mediterranean area: a basic tool to forecast the future

The knowledge of the modern microfauna and microflora assemblages behavior allow to interpret the environmental and climatic evolution in the past.With this concept in mind, we present here a selection of the fossil record from the Miocene to the Quaternary of the Mediterranean area to highlight affinities and differences between anoxic layers of different ages. These informations represent a database very important to be kept for predictive modeling.