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The Tarim Basin in western China formed the easternmost margin of a shallow epicontinental sea that extended across Eurasia and was well connected to the western Tethys during the Paleogene. Climate modelling studies suggest that the westward retreat of this sea from Central Asia may have been as important as the Tibetan Plateau uplift in forcing aridification and monsoon intensification in the Asian continental interior due to the redistribution of the land‐sea thermal contrast. However, testing of this hypothesis is hindered by poor constraints on the timing and precise palaeogeographic dynamics of the retreat. Here, we present an improved integrated bio‐ and magnetostratigraphic chronological framework of the previously studied marine to continental transition in the southwest Tarim Basin along the Pamir and West Kunlun Shan, allowing us to better constrain its timing, cause and palaeoenvironmental impact. The sea retreat is assigned a latest Lutetian–earliest Bartonian age (. 41 Ma; correlation of the last marine sediments to calcareous nannofossil Zone CP14 and correlation of the first continental red beds to the base of magnetochron C18r). Higher up in the continental deposits, a major hiatus includes the Eocene–Oligocene transition (. 34 Ma). This suggests the Tarim Basin was hydrologically connected to the Tethyan marine Realm until at least the earliest Oligocene and had not yet been closed by uplift of the Pamir–Kunlun orogenic system. The westward sea retreat at . 41 Ma and the disconformity at the Eocene–Oligocene transition are both time‐equivalent with reported Asian aridification steps, suggesting that, consistent with climate modelling results, the sea acted as an important moisture source for the Asian continental interior.

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. Plates showing the most important species of calcareous nannofossils recognized. (1, 2) , X nicols (KZ‐B'‐094'); (3) , X nicols (KZ‐B'000'); (4) X nicols (KZ‐B'‐094'), X nicols; (5, 6) , X nicols (KZ‐B'000'); (7, 10) X nicols (AT‐B02); (8, 9) , X nicols (AT‐B02); (11) sp., X nicols (AT‐B02); (12) sp. >5 mm, X nicols (ATB02).

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. Plates showing light photomicrographs of key dinoflagellate cysts species, green algae and pollen recognized. The bar for scale applies to all photographed specimens, apart from 13. (1) (AT‐B02); (2) Fragment of (KY‐B09); (3) (KY‐B07); cpx (KY‐B07); (5) spp. (KY‐B07); (6) (KZ‐B'‐087′); (7) sp. (KY‐B07); (8) (AT‐B37); (9) spp. (AT‐B37); (10) (KY‐B09).

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. Continued from Fig. S2a. (11) spp. (KY‐B07); (12) (KY‐B07); (13) Fragment of (KY‐B07); (14) (AT‐B02); (15) (AT‐B37); (16) (AT‐B37); (17) (KY‐B07); (18) (KY‐B07); (19) spp. (AT‐B37); (20) spp. (KY‐B07); (21) Tasmaniceae (prasinophyte algae) (AT‐B37); (22) pollen (KY‐B07). (23) Pollen sp. (AT‐B02).

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. Mollusk content of examined samples. c, common; f, frequent; r, rare; x, present, brackets for uncertain identification.

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. Range chart of recognized calcareous nannofossils. The numbers correspond to counted specimens in 400 Fields of view at 100×. Dark grey cells correspond to barren samples and white to fossiliferous marine samples.

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. Range chart of recognized palynomorphs. Dark‐shaded cells correspond to barren, light‐shaded to almost barren and nonshaded to fossiliferous marine samples.

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. Declination and inclination of ChRM directions in (IS) and tilt‐corrected (TC) coordinates for the Kezi (KZ) section. MAD is the mean angular deviation. ChRM directions obtained by great circle analysis are indicated by # and forced line‐fits by *. Directions rejected by a 45° cut‐off angle (Deenen ., 2011) are printed in bold.

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. Declination and inclination of ChRM directions in (IS) and tilt‐corrected (TC) coordinates for the Aertashi (AT) section. MAD is the mean angular deviation. ChRM directions obtained by great circle analysis are indicated by # and forced line‐fits by *. Directions rejected by a 45° cut‐off angle (Deenen ., 2011) are printed in bold.

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