Data

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 22988 occurrences of calcareous nannoplankton, dinoflagellates, foraminifera, corals, ostracods, bryozoans, echinoids, mollusks, fishes, and marine mammals. It consists of three 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; and 3) 'DBrefs' contains the full citations of the references in the database.

Description: Length and width, d13C and 18O on Bregmaceros albyi and Lesueurigobius friesii otoliths; and d13C and 18O on Globigerinoides obliquus. Late Miocene Agios Myron section, Crete, from 7.166 to 6.601 Ma. Additional age, SST and SSS data are from Kontakiotis, Butiseaca et al. (2022)

Access at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10602427  

Description: Length, width, and height of fossil bivalve shells, and estimated biovolume and biomass. Lardos section (Rhodes, Greece), Early-Middle Pleistocene. 

Access at:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2023.104224 

Description: Length, width, and taphonomic scores (parameters: completeness, translucency, bioerosion, edge preservation, dissolution, ornamentation loss) of fossil otoliths. Lardos section (Rhodes, Greece), Early-Middle Pleistocene. Trait (habitat, climate) and equation parameters for converting otolith dimensions to fish length, and fish length to fish weight.

Access at: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gxd2547pn

Description: Length, width (height), weight, thickness,14C age, and taphonomic scores (parameters: completeness, translucency, bioerosion, edge preservation, dissolution, ornamentation loss) of otoliths from sea bottom sediments (depths 10-40 m), off the Mediterranean coast of Israel, collected in 2016.

Access at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5147991  

Description: Length, height, antirostrum length, rostrum length, colliculum length, ostial colliculum length, caudal colliculum length, ostium length, caudal length, and sulcus angle α of fossil otoliths. Felli section (NW Greece), Early Miocene. 

Access at: https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-233-2021-supplement