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A revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian salinity crisis
Konstantina Agiadi
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Department of Geology, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Niklas Hohmann
Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Vening Meineszgebouw A, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927, Warsaw, Poland
Elsa Gliozzi
Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre, L.go S. Leonardo Murialdo, 1 – 00146 Rome, Italy
Danae Thivaiou
Natural History Museum of Basel, Augustinergasse 2, 4001 Basel, Switzerland
Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis Zografou 15784, Athens, Greece
Francesca R. Bosellini
Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Marco Taviani
Institute of Marine Science – National Research Council, ISMAR-CNR, Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Villa Comunale, Via Caracciolo, 80122 Naples, Italy
Giovanni Bianucci
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Alberto Collareta
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Laurent Londeix
Université de Bordeaux/UMR “EPOC” CNRS 5805, allée Geoffroy St-Hilaire, 33615 Pessac CEDEX, France
Costanza Faranda
Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre, L.go S. Leonardo Murialdo, 1 – 00146 Rome, Italy
Francesca Bulian
Department of Geology, University of Salamanca, Plaza de Los Caidos s/n, 37008, Salamanca, Spain
Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen, Postsraat 6, 9712 Groningen, the Netherlands
Efterpi Koskeridou
Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis Zografou 15784, Athens, Greece
Francesca Lozar
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, 10125 Turin, Italy
Alan Maria Mancini
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, 10125 Turin, Italy
Department of Life and Environmental Science, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60122 Ancona, Italy
Stefano Dominici
Museo di Storia Naturale, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50121 Florence, Italy
Pierre Moissette
Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis Zografou 15784, Athens, Greece
Ildefonso Bajo Campos
Sección de Paleontología, Museo de Alcalá de Guadaíra, Seville, Spain
Enrico Borghi
Società Reggiana di Scienza Naturali, Reggio Emilia, Italy
George Iliopoulos
Department of Geology, University of Patras, University Campus, 26504 Rio, Achaia, Greece
Assimina Antonarakou
Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis Zografou 15784, Athens, Greece
George Kontakiotis
Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis Zografou 15784, Athens, Greece
Evangelia Besiou
Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis Zografou 15784, Athens, Greece
Stergios D. Zarkogiannis
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Mathias Harzhauser
Natural History Museum, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Francisco Javier Sierro
Department of Geology, University of Salamanca, Plaza de Los Caidos s/n, 37008, Salamanca, Spain
Angelo Camerlenghi
OGS Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Trieste, Italy
Daniel García-Castellanos
Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), Solé i Sabarís s/n, Barcelona, Spain
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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.
We present a dataset of 23032 fossil occurrences of marine organisms from the Late Miocene to...
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