Hi, have a look here for a general view on the tethyan system evolution: http://www.unil.ch/iste/en/home/menuinst/recherche/gerard-stampfli.html
one quite old..but good paper is even Stampfli et al., 1991. more recent you have tethyan ocean..of Stampfli 2000 (http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/173/1/1.short) or the general stampfli and borel 2002 with full of reference in it (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X0100588X)..