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Rising oceanic and atmospheric oxygen levels through time have been crucial to enhanced habitability of surface Earth environments. Few redox proxies can track secular variations in dissolved oxygen concentrations ([O~2~]) around threshold levels for metazoan survival in the upper ocean. We present an extensive compilation of iodine to calcium ratios (I/Ca) in marine carbonates. Our record supports a major rise in atmospheric _p_O~2~ at ~400 million years ago (Ma), and reveals a step-change in the oxygenation of the upper ocean to relatively sustainable near-modern conditions at ~200 Ma. An Earth system model demonstrates that a shift in organic matter remineralization to greater depths, which may have been due to increasing size and biomineralization of eukaryotic plankton, likely drove the I/Ca signals at ~200 Ma.

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Coverage:

Median Latitude: 14.340278 * Median Longitude: -177.846112 * South-bound Latitude: -65.160667 * West-bound Longitude: 1.204867 * North-bound Latitude: 68.200000 * East-bound Longitude: -10.064955

Date/Time Start: 1986-03-04T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2004-10-30T00:00:00

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Lu, W; Ridgwell, A; Thomas, E et al. (2018): (Table S1) Phanerozoic carbonates sections. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.890075
Lu, W; Ridgwell, A; Thomas, E et al. (2018): (Table S2 ) I/Ca record of phanerozoic carbonates. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.890097