Benthic foraminifera from the Mauritanian shelf and upper slope

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Foraminiferal assemblage data was collected from the top 0-1 cm sediment layer of 30 surface samples from the Mauritanian slope and shelf. The material was sampled with a box corer (50x50x55cm), grabs and gravity corer (6m lenght) during the expedition MSM16/3 of RV Maria S. Merian in October-November 2010. The samples range from water depths of 13 m on the shelf to 1310 m on the middle bathyal slope. They are from the inner and outer shelf, upper bathyal slope, canyons, coral mounds, the cold-water coral reef chains at 400–600 m water depth and the middle bathyal slope.The samples were washed over a 250 µm sieve and dried. Per sample 200 benthic foraminiferal specimens were counted on species level. 154 were documented with illustrations and descriptions. The purpose of the study was to investigate the foraminiferal faunas of the Mauritanian shelf and upper slope and their association with cold water coral habitats.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.967496
Related Identifier References https://nwv-hamburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NF_53_Mauritanian_shelf.pdf
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.967496
Provenance
Creator Hesemann, Michael
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 3690 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-17.683W, 17.482S, -16.662E, 20.880N); Arguin mud wedge; outer shelf off Banc dArguin; Baie du Levrier; central outer Banc dArguin; northern canyon area west of Banc dArguin (ROV3); southern Banc d Arguin; Deep mound chain; Canyon area southern Banc dArguin (ROV2); Timiris mud wedge; Timiris deep coral mound chain; Canyon S of Timiris mound chain; Banda mounds; northern Banda slide; southern Banda slide
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-10-24T08:51:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-11-16T22:07:00Z