Abundance of plantkonic foraminifera from 28 stations in the Aegean and the Levantine Sea

• Main Authors: Zarkogiannis, Stergios, Kontakiotis, George, Antonarakou, A
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: 155-162; 163-170; 171-179; 180-187; 188-194; 566; 571; 574; 578; 594; 596; 602; Aegeo_1992_M22-103; Aegeo_1998_MNB5; Aegeo_1998_MNB6; Aegeo_1998_MSB3; Aegeo_1998_MSB4; Aegeo_1998_MSB7; Aegeo_1998_NS40; Average shell size; Calculated; Cruise/expedition; Eastern Mediterranean; Eastern Mediterranean Sea; Elevation of event; Event label; GC; Globigerina bulloides; Globigerinella calida; Globigerinella siphonifera; Globigerinita glutinata; Globigerinoides ruber sensu lato; Globigerinoides ruber sensu stricto; Globigerinoides ruber var. rosea; Globorotalia inflata; Globoturborotalita rubescens; Gravity corer; Gravity corer (Kiel type); Greece; Hydna_2008_C1; Hydna_2008_C18; Hydna_2008_C20; Hydna_2008_C28; Hydna_2008_C38; Hydna_2008_C6; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; M40/4; M40/4_MUC65; M40/4_MUC67; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.927261; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.927261

For detailed quantitative micropalaeontological analysis, specimens of planktonic foraminifera were picked from about 3g of dry marine sediment, taken from the 1-2 topmost centimeters of the cores. Each sample was disaggregated with a weak hydrogen peroxide solution, wet sieved through a 63 μm sieve, and left to dry at 50°C overnight. The dry residues were sieved through a 125 μm screen and split using an Otto micro-splitter into aliquots of at least 300 planktonic foraminifera specimens, which were identified using the taxonomy of Hemleben et al. (1989; doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-3544-6_2). Trilobatus sacculifer and Trilobatus trilobus were treated as two different morphotypes. As T. trilobus are regarded the T. sacculifer individuals without the sac-like final chamber. Following Aurahs et al., 2009 (doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04136.x), we distinguish Globigerinoides ruber pink (var. rosea) as a distinct morphotype. For the white variety (var. albus), we follow the concept of Wang (2000; doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00094-8) by distinguishing G. ruber sensu stricto (s.s.) and G. ruber sensu lato (s.l.) morphotypes. We further note that G. ruber s.s. is equivalent to Morphotype A (type “Normal”), while those specimens grouped as G. ruber s.l. correspond to the Morphotypes B and C (types “Platys”and “Elongate”) of Kontakiotis et al. (2017; doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2017.05.005) for the study area.