The biological impact of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean

Featuring: Casatia thermophila (Zanclean) Messapicetus_longirostris (Tortonian) (photos: dr. Giovanni Bianucci)

Coordinator: Daniel Garcia-Castellanos

Based on these articles:

Agiadi et al., 2024. "The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis". Science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

Garcia-Castellanos, D., A. Villaseñor, 2011. Messinian salinity crisis regulated by competing tectonics and erosion at the Gibraltar Arc. Nature, 480, 359-363, doi:10.1038/nature10651

Micallef, A., Camerlenghi, Garcia-Castellanos, Cunarro Otero, Gutscher, Barreca, Spatola, Facchin, Geletti, Krastel, Gross & Urlaub, 2018. Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Scientific Reports (Nature Pub.), 8:1078 DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-19446-3. [open access]

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