More than 3 degrees warmer 47 million years ago in a hothouse climate at Messel

Eocene hyperthermal events reflect profound perturbations of the global carbon cycle. Most of our knowledge about their onset, timing, and rates originates from marine records. Our results show maximum warming of ca. 3.5 °C during C21n-H1 during a already warm Messel

Download Metadata as EML

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Geographic coverage
Geographic description UNESCO World Heritage site ‘Messel Fossil Pit’
Bounding coordinates
North: 49.915
West: 8.7513
East: 8.7513
South: 49.915
Other info
Last Updated January 29, 2026, 11:04 (UTC)
Created January 29, 2026, 10:47 (UTC)

Responsible parties

Creator and point of contact
Name Iuliana Popa-Vasiliev
Organization affiliations
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)

Creator
Name Clemens Schmitt
Organization affiliations
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)

Creator

Creator
Name Andreas Mulch
Organization affiliations
Senckenberg

Associated party
Name Andreas Mulch
Organization affiliations
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
Role Author

Associated publications

Publication
Link https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01628-9
Publication
Link https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.967147

Research data management planning

Types of data that will be / are / were created during the project Text (notes, surveys, etc.) , Numeric (spreadsheet, measurements, etc.)
Estimated volume of created data Cannot estimate
Data will be stored at (long-term archived) Dropbox; laboratory computers; group computers; external memory devices

Link to this dataset:

https://dataportal.senckenberg.de/dataset/39c72ff0-514c-434a-9496-dfb70d9bfcd1