“…The Iberian Margin is located in an open ocean setting with limited terrigenous inputs, high sedimentation rates, and successful U K ′ 37 and TEX 86 paleothermometries (Bard et al, 2000;Darfeuil et al, 2016;Martrat et al, 2007;Pailler & Bard, 2002). The Iberian Margin thus constitutes a much more favorable sedimentary setting to validate the novel RI-OH′ and RI-OH paleothermometers than the Gulf of Lions (Davtian et al, 2019). Contrary to Davtian et al (2019) and similarly to other multiproxy studies (e.g., Fietz et al, 2013Fietz et al, , 2016Fietz et al, , 2020de Bar et al, 2018de Bar et al, , 2019Jonas et al, 2017;Lattaud et al, 2018;Lopes dos Santos et al, 2013;Smith et al, 2020), we studied all organic proxies using a single set of lipid extracts to facilitate comparisons between novel and established paleothermometers.…”