A revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian salinity crisis

Agiadi, Konstantina; Hohmann, Niklas; Gliozzi, Elsa; Thivaiou, Danae; Bosellini, Francesca R.; Taviani, Marco; Bianucci, Giovanni; Collareta, Alberto; Londeix, Laurent; Faranda, Costanza; Bulian, Francesca; Koskeridou, Efterpi; Lozar, Francesca; Mancini, Alan Maria; Dominici, Stefano; Moissette, Pierre; Bajo Campos, Ildefonso; Borghi, Enrico; Iliopoulos, George; Antonarakou, Assimina; Kontakiotis, George; Besiou, Evangelia; Zarkogiannis, Stergios D.; Harzhauser, Mathias; Sierro, Francisco Javier; Camerlenghi, Angelo; García-Castellanos, Daniel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-4767-2024

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-4767-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-4767-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

Data description paper

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22 Oct 2024

Data description paper |

| 22 Oct 2024

A revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian salinity crisis

Konstantina Agiadi, Niklas Hohmann, Elsa Gliozzi, Danae Thivaiou, Francesca R. Bosellini, Marco Taviani, Giovanni Bianucci, Alberto Collareta, Laurent Londeix, Costanza Faranda, Francesca Bulian, Efterpi Koskeridou, Francesca Lozar, Alan Maria Mancini, Stefano Dominici, Pierre Moissette, Ildefonso Bajo Campos, Enrico Borghi, George Iliopoulos, Assimina Antonarakou, George Kontakiotis, Evangelia Besiou, Stergios D. Zarkogiannis, Mathias Harzhauser, Francisco Javier Sierro, Angelo Camerlenghi, and Daniel García-Castellanos

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CC1:
'Calcareous nannofossil data to incorporate', Maria Triantaphyllou, 28 Mar 2024

Dear authors, I am pleased to see this solid review of Mediterranean fossil record around the MSC. Indeed, the database is large and accomodates in an excellent way the documented biodiversity records. However, I would like to point out that there are additional available calcareous nannofossil records that will contribute to the best overview of the Eastern Mediterranean area during the crucial selected period. As included in your manuscript concerning the South Aegean Cretan basin, the 378 DSDP record has been used, incorporating the Muller (1978) initial data for calcareous nannofossil assemblages. However, the recent publication of Skampa et al. (2024) "The Cretan Basin (South Aegean Sea, NE Mediterranean) in the Early Pliocene: a paleoceanographic reconstruction", Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology Volume 640, 15 April 2024, 112085, has been available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018224000749?via%3Dihub#da0005. In there, you may find (online Supplementary data) an extensive record of detailed calcareous nannofossil quantitative data for the interval ∼5.2–3.9 Ma that provides an updated and accurate record for the area, and should be included in your data base. In addition, concerning the Cyprus sequences, in the paper of Athanasiou et al. (2017) "Sea surface temperatures and environmental conditions during the “warm Pliocene” interval (~ 4.1–3.2 Ma) in the Eastern Mediterranean (Cyprus)", Global and Planetary Change Volume 150, March 2017, Pages 46-57 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818116303149#ec-research-data), an extensive record of detailed calcareous nannofossil quantitative data for the interval 4.1–3.25 Ma is available. Soon it will appear in Pangaea, however I upload it also here. Hopefully it will be a merit to your constructed data base. Maria Triantaphyllou

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-75-CC1
- AC1: 'Reply on CC1', Konstantina Agiadi, 31 Mar 2024
  
  Dear Prof. Triantaphyllou, we really appreciate your kind evaluation of our work. Data published after 2022 were not incorporated in this dataset, since the time since then was required for us to combine, clean and analyze the data. Thank you for making the datasets of Skampa et al. (2024) and Athanasiou et al. (2017) openly available. These indeed are important contributions. We will incorporate them in the version 1.2 of the dataset, after the review process has been completed.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-75-AC1
RC1:
'Comment on essd-2024-75_Overall assessment:', Fadl Raad, 18 May 2024

I am delighted to see this comprehensive review of the Mediterranean fossil record surrounding the MSC. The database is extensive and excellently accommodates the documented biodiversity records.

This study makes a significant contribution by providing a revised and comprehensive fossil record for the Mediterranean before and after the MSC. The adherence to FAIR principles enhances the dataset’s utility and accessibility for future research.

Discussion could be slightly expanded to include broader implications and future research opportunities.

Including additional plots, such as pie charts or histograms, could help visualize the distribution and diversity of the fossil records within the database, making the data more accessible and interpretable for readers.

Agiadi et al., dataset manuscript presents a valuable dataset and a thorough analysis of the Mediterranean marine fossil record. With some very minor (mostly technical) revisions, it will be a very good contribution to the field of geosciences.

Attached is a word document with a more detailed section by section review, and a PDF with all my specific comments.

Best,

Fadl Raad

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-75-RC1
- AC2: 'Reply on RC1', Konstantina Agiadi, 18 Aug 2024
  
  Thank you for kindly reviewing our manuscript and for your constructive, detailed comments. Indeed, adding the graphs as you suggest will help visualize the dataset better. We agree also with the all the changes you propose in the text.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-75-AC2
RC2:
'Comment on essd-2024-75', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Aug 2024

I want to congratulate with the authors for the excellent job that they made. The data set about the marine fossil record of the Tortonian-Zanclean interval (excluding the Messinian salinity crisis record) will be for sure very useful for comparing the effects of the progressive restriction of the Atlantic-Mediterranean gateways and more in general of the Messinian salinity crisis on marine biota. The text is easy to read and well structured. I had a look at the excel files in the data section and they seem to be easy to access. The only suggestion that I have is to add some explicative figures (pie charts, histograms ecc) showing the main changes suffered by the considered fossil groups in this critical interval of the history of the Mediterranean Basin-

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-75-RC2
- AC3: 'Reply on RC2', Konstantina Agiadi, 18 Aug 2024
  
  Dear reviewer,
  Thank you for kindly reviewing our manuscript. We will make the changes you suggest to improve the presentation of the dataset.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-75-AC3

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

AR by Konstantina Agiadi on behalf of the Authors (22 Aug 2024) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (28 Aug 2024) by François G. Schmitt

RR by Fadl Raad (04 Sep 2024)

ED: Publish as is (04 Sep 2024) by François G. Schmitt

AR by Konstantina Agiadi on behalf of the Authors (04 Sep 2024) Manuscript

Short summary

We present a dataset of 23032 fossil occurrences of marine organisms from the Late Miocene to the Early Pliocene (~11 to 3.6 million years ago) from the Mediterranean Sea. This dataset will allow us, for the first time, to quantify the biodiversity impact of the Messinian salinity crisis, a major geological event that possibly changed global and regional climate and biota.

A revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian salinity crisis

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