圖爾蓋海峽中生代新生代期間的一大片內海。它從現在的裏海以北延伸到「古北極」地區,存在於中侏羅世漸新世之間,大約距今1億6千萬年至2900萬年。[1]

圖爾蓋海峽將南歐西南亞分裂成許多大島嶼,並將歐洲亞洲分開[2],隔離了動物種群[3]

圖爾蓋海峽得名於現今哈薩克圖爾蓋盆地圖爾蓋河的一段流經該盆地。[4]

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編輯
  1. ^ Briggs, John C. Global Biogeography. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 1995; pp. 71, 76, 84, 88, and ff.
  2. ^ Duellman, William Edward. Biology of Amphibians. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994; p. 480.
  3. ^ Duellman, William E. (1986). Biology of Amphibians. JHU Press. p. 479. ISBN 9780801847806. Otherwise, most, if not all, continental masses were united into a single land mass — Pangaea. ... (M) Leiopelmatidae (L) Discoglossidae (U) Palaeobatrachidae (U) Cretaceous, 135 m.y. Turgai Sea separated east and west Eurasia
  4. ^ Tectonic units and division of the South Turgay Basin