Temperature and Salinity in Mediterranean of Pre‐Evaporitic Messinian, Cyprus

Here, we present sea surface temperature (SST) and sea surface salinity of the 7.70–5.98 Ma pre‐evaporitic Pissouri section (Cyprus), using a multiproxy approach that combines biomarker‐based TEX86 and UKʹ 37 proxies with oxygen isotope analyses of the planktic foraminifera Orbulina universa.

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Additional Info

Field	Value
Geographic coverage
Geographic description	Pissouri Messinian Section
Bounding coordinates	North: 34.4 West: None East: 32.42 South: None
Other info
Last Updated	January 29, 2026, 12:27 (UTC)
Created	January 29, 2026, 12:24 (UTC)

Responsible parties

Creator and point of contact
Name	Iuliana Popa-Vasiliev
Organization affiliations	Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
Creator
Name	Andreas Mulch
Organization affiliations	Senckenberg
Associated party
Name	Francesca Lanterna
Organization affiliations	Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
Role	Author

Associated publications

Publication

Link	https://doi.org/10.1029/2025PA005277

Research data management planning

Types of data that will be / are / were created during the project	Numeric (spreadsheet, measurements, etc.)
Estimated volume of created data	Cannot estimate
Data will be stored at (long-term archived)	Zenodo; instrument computers; external hard drives; dropbox

Link to this dataset:

https://dataportal.senckenberg.de/dataset/4c170c29-3b65-4baf-b725-27f181518bdf