“…This age has been chal lenged by Popadyuk and Smirnov (1991), who con cluded Early Cre ta ceous age. This sparked a lively dis cus sion (e.g., Popadyuk et al, 2010Popadyuk et al, , 2013aPopadyuk et al, , b, 2014Oszczypko et al, 2012b, c) un til Sheremet et al (2014Sheremet et al ( , 2016a, on the ba sis of cal car e ous nannoplanton anal y ses of flysch-like de pos its in the east ern sec tor of the CM, in cluded both the Tauric For ma tion and the Lower Cre ta ceous flysch de pos its of the east ern sec tor of the Cri mea into the Tauric Group.…”