Dear Authors,

Both reviewers found that your paper was of high scientific significance, and that the scientific quality and the presentation quality were high/good. Moreover, in your reply to the reviewer’s comments, you demonstrated that you could easily address the few comments they have.
I'm therefore pleased to ask you to proceed with minor revisions of your paper, provided that your revision is done following the lines described in your replies to reviewers.

I wish you all the best for this task and I'm looking forward to reading your revised manuscript

Pierre Francus
Handling editor

Dear Authors

I'm happy to accept your paper pending very minor revisions. I thank you for the clear and thorough response to the reviewer comments. I have been impressed by the amount of details there is in this paper, and congratulate you for the way you report the data and make them available to other researchers in the supplementary tables.

I however made a couple of suggestions to improve further the quality of your paper, most of them being notes in the last PDF version of your manuscript (attached to this message). It should not take more than an hour or so to include them if you decide they are pertinent. Please let me know if they are. One thing that needs to be addressed is the reference style, that is not following the format required by Clim. Past.

On top of this, I noted that I cannot access the data in Pangaea following the reference given. Maybe it is because you have not made the data available yet, or maybe the ling/doi ref. is wrong. Please check this.

Finally, the Figure/Table numbering is not identical from one figure to another, including in the supplement. Please try having the same labelling, in the caption and in the figure itself (you often mix "a" and "A").

Again, thank you for submitted your excellent manuscript to Climate of the Past.

Best Regards

Thank you for including my suggestions in the last version of the paper. This excellent paper set a good example of the importance of a robust stratigraphy and that the job done by sedimentologists are of prime importance.
All the best
Pierre Francus