As so ci ate ed i tor: Jacek Grabowski We pres ent ev i dence for the up per most Ju ras sic-low est Cre ta ceous in ter val in Cri mea, coastal south ern Ukraine. Three facies zones are dis tin guished in the up per Dvuyakornaya and the Mayak for ma tions of the east ern Cri mean Pen in sula: basinal, slope and toe-of-slope zones. In this in ter val we iden tify the low est Berriasian Jacobi and Grandis subzones of authors, in ex panded form, ex ceed ing 160 metres in thick ness. We pres ent new magnetostratigraphic in ter pre ta tions, and iden tify two nor mal and two re versed po lar ity in ter vals, as signed to M19n, M18r, M18n and M17r, with M19n2n, M19n1r and M19n1n iden ti fied in the up per most Dvuyakornaya For ma tion. In the Mayak For ma tion we re cord the top of M19n.1n, with M18r, M18n and a thick M17r above. In these two for ma tions com po nent calpionellid spe cies have been iden ti fied which char ac ter ise the Alpina, Ferasini and Elliptica subzones (Calpionella Zone). In M19n, the FADs of the cal car e ous nannofossils Hexalithus strictus, Cruciellipsis cuvillieri, Nannoconus wintereri, N. steinmannii mi nor and N. kamptneri mi nor are found, which is con sis tent with other Tethyan re gions. N. steinmannii steinmannii and N. kamptneri kamptneri first appear in M18r at Ili Burnu. Spec i mens of the ap par ently Tithonian foraminiferan in dex Anchispirocyclina lusitanica are found, but in the Berriasian lower Mayak For ma tion.