Marine Phosphorus Spikes During Palaeozoic Mass Extinctions

Matthew Dodd's dataset on Recurring Marine Phosphorus Spikes during Major Palaeozoic Mass Extinctions and Climate Change is available on figshare. It is a 64.1 KB XLSX file last updated on May 20, 2026. The dataset likely contains geochemical time-series data related to phosphorus cycling in ancient oceans.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine biogeochemical cycles based on phosphorus concentration data.
• Correlating geochemical perturbations with extinction timing based on the described spikes.
• Studying the role of nutrient cycling in climate change events during the Palaeozoic era.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• File size is 64.1 KB, indicating a focused and manageable dataset.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Matthew Dodd

Time Range

Palaeozoic era

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 07:04:34; freshness should be verified.