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Contributions of this volume may be summarized into three aspects. First, the monograph summarizes results on Triassic-Jurassic terrigenous and siliceous formations and Jurassic volcanism of the Sikhote-Alin; second, new information on some Triassic and Jurassic biotas is given; thirdly, based on paleontological data and oxygen- and carbon-isotopic data, recently obtained, new views on late Paleozoic to middle Mesozoic climatic oscillations in the eastern Asian continental margin are suggested. Characteristic of Triassic-Jurassic biotas from the Bureya-Jiamusy-Khanka superterrane, Sergeevka terrane and some exotic blocks of Late Triassic terrigenous rocks from the Taukha terrane, as well as on Permian biotas from this area, permits to assume that all of them inhabited in a single shallowwater basin (Ussuri-Lesser Hingan) in conditions of significant climatic changes, which is characteristic for middle latitudes. In contrast, Late Triassic macrofaunas, including tropical-type megalodontid bivalves from block inclusions of shallow-water limestone and apparently radiolarians from slice of deep-water chert of the Taukha terrane inhabited in more stable tropical marine conditions, which took place in low latitudes. It seems to be a strong evidence supporting some interpretations, according which some terranes of the Sikhote-Alin, including the Taukha terrane, were significantly shifted northward.