Cenozoic sea-level relative to modern from deep-sea geochemical and continental margin records

We use published Pacific benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotope data and Mg/Ca records to derive a Cenozoic (66 Ma) global mean sea level (GMSL) estimate. This paper is novel in providing the first Pacific benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotopic splice for the entire Cenozoic, a detailed (Myr scale) sea-level record for the last 48 Ma based on the benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotopic and Mg/Ca approach (Mg/Ca records older than 48 Ma are uncertain). We use the 2012 Geological Time Scale (GTS), a 2-Myr smoothed paleotemperatures (Cramer et al., 2011) who used a low-pass filter that passes >80% of the amplitude for frequencies 2 Myr), ramping down to 1.25/Myr (wavelength <0.8 Myr). We used equation 7b Cramer et al. (2011) and a simplified paleotemperature equation for benthic foraminifera T = 16.1– 4.76 [δ18Obenthic – (δ18Oseawater – 0.27)] to solve for oxygen isotopic changes of seawater. We assume that shorter term (