Data from: Sampling bias and the fossil record of planktonic foraminifera on land and in the deep sea ...
Large-scale trends in planktonic foraminiferal diversity have so far been based on utilization of synoptic biostratigraphic range charts. Although this approach ensures the taxonomic consistency and quality of the data being used, it takes no formal account of any sampling biases that might exist in...
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Dryad
2012
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8ts3p https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.8ts3p |
| Summary: | Large-scale trends in planktonic foraminiferal diversity have so far been based on utilization of synoptic biostratigraphic range charts. Although this approach ensures the taxonomic consistency and quality of the data being used, it takes no formal account of any sampling biases that might exist in the fossil record. We demonstrate that the occurrence data of planktonic foraminifera, as recorded in the primary literature, are strongly biased by sampling. We do this by demonstrating that raw diversity curves derived from the land-based and deep-sea records are strikingly different, but that they each correlate with the intensity of sampling in their respective environments, and thus are ultimately controlled by the structure of the geological record in each setting. Because sampling of the Mesozoic record is best in our land record whereas sampling of the Cenozoic is best in our deep-sea record, we combine the two to generate the best-supported estimates of species and genus diversity over time from these ... : Supplementary Table1List of planktonic foraminifera species recorded from Atlantic deep‐sea cores included in this study for each time bin. Note that only those species that can be unambiguously dated to within a time bin are included. Columns give the time interval covered in millions of years.Supplementary Table2List of planktonic foraminifera species recorded from land‐based sections included in this study for each time bin. Note that only those species that can be unambiguously dated to within a time bin are included.Supplementary Table3List of planktonic foraminifera species recorded from Atlantic deep‐sea cores and land based sections included in this study for each time bin. Note that only those species that can be unambiguously dated to within a time bin.rev lloyd 11041 supplCorrelations between different species richness estimates for planktonic foraminfera (see Fig. 5 of main paper). Values in bold are statistically significant correlations. ... |
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