Published August 22, 2024 | Version v4
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Revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian Salinity Crisis

  • 1. ROR icon University of Vienna
  • 2. ROR icon Utrecht University
  • 3. Università degli Studi Roma Tre
  • 4. Natural History Museum Basel
  • 5. Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
  • 6. ROR icon Institute of Marine Science
  • 7. ROR icon Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
  • 8. ROR icon University of Pisa
  • 9. Universite de Bordeaux
  • 10. Universita degli Studi di Roma tre
  • 11. ROR icon University of Groningen
  • 12. ROR icon National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • 13. Università degli Studi di Torino
  • 14. Università degli Studi di Firenze
  • 15. Museo de Alcala de Guadaira
  • 16. Societa Reggiana di Scienza Naturali
  • 17. Panepistemio Patron Schole Thetikon Epistemon
  • 18. University of Oxford
  • 19. ROR icon Natural History Museum Vienna
  • 20. University of Salamanca
  • 21. ROR icon National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
  • 22. GEO3BCN-CSIC

Description

This is a unified and revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean covering the Tortonian stage, the pre-evaporitic Messinian and the Zanclean stage and encompassing 23032 occurrences of calcareous nannoplankton, dinoflagellates, foraminifera, corals, ostracods, bryozoans, echinoids, mollusks, fishes, and marine mammals. It consists of four files in .csv format: 1) 'MessinianDB' contains the fossil occurrences; 2) 'coord' has the list of fossiliferous localities with their coordinates and the groups of organisms reported from each one; 3) 'DBrefs' contains the full citations of the references in the database; 4) 'corals' contains the list of coral genera in the database, indicating whether or not they include zooxanthellate (z-corals) or azooxanthellate (az-corals) species, or both. In the latter case, we further indicate if the species found in the database should be considered z- or az-corals, based on the accompanying fauna. 

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Additional details

Funding

FWF Austrian Science Fund
Late Miocene Mediterranean Marine Ecosystem Crisis Grant DOI 10.55776/V986

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/NiklasHohmann/messinian_db
Programming language
R
Development Status
Active