The database compilation of planktonic foraminiferal census counts from the Southern Hemisphere Oceans (1874 - 2012) extends from 15°S, at the northern limb of the middle- to low-latitude gyres in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans to the coast of Antarctica, to allow the reconstruction of past latitudinal variations of the polar, subpolar, and subtropical waters. Data sourced from the cited PANGAEA dataset.

Citation: Haddam, Naoufel; Michel, Elisabeth; Siani, Giuseppe; Cortese, Giuseppe; Bostock, Helen C; Duprat, Josette M; Isguder, Gulay (2016): Compilation of planktonic foraminiferal census counts from the Southern Hemisphere Oceans. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.860938

Published: July 29, 2025 at 02:36

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=so_forams

Naoufel Haddam
GEOPS Geosciences Paris-Sud, CNRS, Université de Paris Sud

OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

20,428

occurrence records

1,398

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
eventDate	4,935	24.2%
maximumDepthInMeters	105	0.5%
minimumDepthInMeters	105	0.5%
scientificNameID	1,166	5.7%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	1,190	5.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	583	2.9%
NO_DEPTH	105	0.5%

Compilation of planktonic foraminiferal census counts from the Southern Hemisphere Oceans (1874 - 2012)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data