Bolton, Clara T; Stoll, Heather M (2025): Noelaerhabdaceae coccolith length (mean, 5th percentile and 95th percentile) over the past 40 million years compiled from the literature [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.982714
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Published: 2025-07-04 • DOI registered: 2025-08-02
Abstract:
This dataset contains the data plotted in Figure 5 of the review paper Coccoliths as Recorders of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate over the Past 66 Million Years by Bolton & Stoll (2025, AREPS; doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-040623-103211). It is a compilation of previously published data on Noelaerhabdaceae coccolith size (mean length and 5th and 95th percentiles where available) over the last 40 million years. The data provide insights into coccolith size evolution, of interest for paleoceanographic and micropaleontological research. Data come from a large number of DSDP/ODP/IODP, NGHP, and MD sediment cores from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and values are based on (manual and automated) light microscope measurements of Noelaerhabdaceae coccoliths.
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Bolton, Clara T; Stoll, Heather M (2024): Coccoliths as Recorders of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate over the Past 66 Million Years. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-040623-103211
References:
Beaufort, Luc; Bolton, Clara T; Sarr, Anta-Clarisse; Suchéras-Marx, Baptiste; Rosenthal, Yair; Donnadieu, Yannick; Barbarin, Nicolas; Bova, Samantha C; Cornuault, Pauline; Gally, Yves; Gray, Emmeline; Mazur, Jean-Charles; Tetard, Martin (2022): Cyclic evolution of phytoplankton forced by changes in tropical seasonality. Nature, 601(7891), 79-84, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04195-7
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Coverage:
Median Latitude: -5.848271 * Median Longitude: 31.949605 * South-bound Latitude: -52.223800 * West-bound Longitude: -110.521400 * North-bound Latitude: 40.349930 * East-bound Longitude: 166.191300
Date/Time Start: 1972-03-31T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2001-09-27T00:00:00
Minimum Elevation: -4367.8 m * Maximum Elevation: -1214.0 m
Event(s):
23-223 * Latitude: 18.749700 * Longitude: 60.129700 * Date/Time: 1972-03-31T00:00:00 * Elevation: -3633.0 m * Penetration: 740 m * Recovery: 194.4 m * Location: Indian Ocean/Arabian Sea/RIDGE * Campaign: Leg23 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 39 cores; 351 m cored; 0 m drilled; 55.4 % recovery
24-231 * Latitude: 11.890200 * Longitude: 48.245200 * Date/Time: 1972-05-04T00:00:00 * Elevation: -2152.0 m * Penetration: 584 m * Recovery: 425.8 m * Location: Indian Ocean/Gulf of Aden/BASIN * Campaign: Leg24 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 64 cores; 583.7 m cored; 0 m drilled; 72.9 % recovery
25-242 * Latitude: -15.844200 * Longitude: 41.820500 * Date/Time: 1972-07-23T00:00:00 * Elevation: -2275.0 m * Penetration: 676 m * Recovery: 102.9 m * Location: Indian Ocean//CHANNEL * Campaign: Leg25 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 18 cores; 125 m cored; 9 m drilled; 82.3 % recovery
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | Bolton, Clara T | |||
| 2 | Latitude of event | Latitude | Bolton, Clara T | |||
| 3 | Longitude of event | Longitude | Bolton, Clara T | |||
| 4 | Date/Time of event | Date/Time | Bolton, Clara T | |||
| 5 | Elevation of event | Elevation | m | Bolton, Clara T | ||
| 6 | Ocean | Ocean | Bolton, Clara T | |||
| 7 | Age | Age | Ma | Bolton, Clara T | From literature | From original publication |
| 8 | AGE | Age | ka BP | Bolton, Clara T | From literature | Geocode |
| 9 | Noelaerhabdaceae, length | Noelaerhabdaceae l | µm | Bolton, Clara T | From literature | Mean |
| 10 | Noelaerhabdaceae, length | Noelaerhabdaceae l | µm | Bolton, Clara T | From literature | 5th Percentile |
| 11 | Noelaerhabdaceae, length | Noelaerhabdaceae l | µm | Bolton, Clara T | From literature | 95th Percentile |
| 12 | Comment | Comment | Bolton, Clara T | Short Reference (as in figure legend in manuscript) | ||
| 13 | Reference/source | Reference | Bolton, Clara T | |||
| 14 | Uniform resource locator/link to reference | URL ref | Bolton, Clara T | |||
| 15 | Sample comment | Sample comment | Bolton, Clara T |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
6364 data points
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