“…Sev eral sam ples, pre vi ously assigned in lab re ports to the Oligocene to early Mio cene in ter val, con tain palynological as sem blages typ i cal of mid dle to up per Mio cene de pos its of the Dacian Ba sin (Ro man and Papaianopol, 1982;£abãrã, 2008, 2014, Casas-Gallego et al, 2020a, mainly gym no sperms (Pinuspollenites, Piceapollis, Abiespollenites, Taxodiaceae) and an gio sperms (e.g., Tricolporopollenites, Caryapollenites, Quercopollenites, Faguspollenites, Sabalpollenites, Tiliapollenites, Alnipollenites, Chenopodiaceae). Among the spores con sid ered as mark ers for the early Mio cene, Mecsekisporites mioceanicus Nagy mainly oc curs in the mid dle Mio cene (Badenian) of the Pannonian Ba sin (Nagy, 2005;Mandic et al, 2019).…”