Revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian Salinity Crisis
Authors/Creators
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Agiadi, Konstantina
(Contact person)1
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Hohmann, Niklas
(Data curator)2
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Gliozzi, Elsa
(Data collector)3
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Thivaiou, Danae
(Data collector)4
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Francesca, Bosellini
(Data collector)5
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Taviani, Marco
(Data collector)6, 7
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Bianucci, Giovanni
(Data collector)8
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Collareta, Alberto
(Data collector)8
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Londeix, Laurent
(Data collector)9
- Faranda, Costanza (Data collector)10
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Bulian, Francesca
(Data collector)11
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Koskeridou, Efterpi
(Data collector)12
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Lozar, Francesca
(Data collector)13
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Mancini, Alan Maria
(Data collector)13
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Dominici, Stefano
(Data collector)14
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Moissette, Pierre
(Data collector)12
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Bajo Campos, Ildefonso
(Data collector)15
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Borghi, Enrico
(Data collector)16
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Iliopoulos, George
(Data collector)17
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Antonarakou, Assimina
(Data collector)12
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Kontakiotis, George
(Data collector)12
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Besiou, Evangelia
(Data collector)12
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Zarkogiannis, Stergios D.
(Data collector)18
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Harzhauser, Mathias
(Data collector)19
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Sierro, Francisco
(Data collector)20
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Camerlenghi, Angelo
(Other)21
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Garcia-Castellanos, Daniel
(Other)22
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University of Vienna
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Utrecht University
- 3. Università degli Studi Roma Tre
- 4. Natural History Museum Basel
- 5. Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
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Institute of Marine Science
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Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
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University of Pisa
- 9. Universite de Bordeaux
- 10. Universita degli Studi di Roma tre
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University of Groningen
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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
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Natural History Museum Vienna
- 20. University of Salamanca
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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.
Files
coord.csv
Additional details
Funding
Software
- Repository URL
- https://github.com/NiklasHohmann/messinian_db
- Programming language
- R
- Development Status
- Active