“…The fossil coral Cladocora caespitosa, which often is associated with Strombus-bearing terraces, has been dated mainly to MIS5e using Amino-acid and U series methods (Hearty et al, 1986a; (Sivan et al, 1999;Bardaji et al, 2009;Zazo et al, 2003Zazo et al, , 2013, although they also occur in terraces assigned to MIS7 in the western Mediterranean (Zazo et al, 2013 and references therein). Such MIS5e terraces have been identified along the Spanish coast (Hoang and Hearty, 1989;Zazo et al, 2003Zazo et al, , 2013Bardaji et al, 2009;Dabrio et al, 2011), in Mallorca (Hillaire-Marcel et al, 1986Hearty, 1987;Zazo et al, 2002), in the Gibraltar region (Rodríguez-Vidal et al, 2007) (Table 1), and in Calabria and Puglia, Italy (Hearty et al, 1986b;Dumas et al, 2005). Elevations of these marine terraces vary between þ1.5 and þ 5 m. In Mallorca, MIS5e RSL was also reconstructed from coastal cave speleothems, between þ1.5 and þ 3 m (Tuccimei et al, 2006;Dorale et al, 2010).…”