M. : World of Science, 2009 195 c. The monograph is devoted to paleogeography, Biogeography and Cenozoic history of the northern edge of Tethys in the process of deep-water basin reduction and development of epicontinental shelf seas , reconstructed on the basis of created oleogeographic maps , the history of biota and the prevailing ideas about geodynamics and plate tectonics . The interval under consideration - from the late Eocene to the end of the early Miocene - covers about 22 million. years and corresponds to the time of formation of the inland basins of Parathetis from the system of marginal seas as a result of orogeny of alpine folding. The territory under consideration includes the entire area of distribution of marine, brackish-water and continental precipitation of the Paleogene and Neogene of the northern outskirts of Tethys from the Pre-Alpine bend to the Aral Sea and the Tien Shan, but the less studied Euxino-Caspian region is considered in more detail. In palinspa-stic reconstructions of the tectonically active Alpine fold belt, where the initial occurrence of precipitation is disturbed, the key were paleobiogeographic data, since the ranges of the main groups of fossils were determined by paleogeography and geodynamics.