Articles | Volume 17, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3567-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3567-2025
Data description paper
 | 
29 Jul 2025
Data description paper |  | 29 Jul 2025

Global Acritarch Database ( > 110 000 occurrences)

Xiang Shu, Haijun Song, Yong Lei, Daoliang Chu, Jacopo Dal Corso, Xiaokang Liu, Qin Ye, Hanchen Song, Lai Wei, Enhao Jia, Yan Feng, Yong Du, Huyue Song, Wenchao Yu, Qingzhong Liang, Xinchuan Li, Hong Yao, and Yuyang Wu

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on essd-2024-577', Jan Hennissen, 10 Mar 2025
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC1', Haijun Song, 15 Apr 2025
  • RC2: 'Comment on essd-2024-577', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Mar 2025
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC2', Haijun Song, 15 Apr 2025

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Haijun Song on behalf of the Authors (15 Apr 2025)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (19 May 2025) by Frédéric Gazeau
AR by Haijun Song on behalf of the Authors (20 May 2025)  Author's response   Manuscript 
Download
Short summary
Building on the foundation of Palynodata, the Global Acritarch Database (GAD) added 29 new fields, 4531 new entries, 2 238 366 new metadata points, and 415 new references, resulting in a database comprising 115 860 entries, 43 fields, 3 050 852 metadata points, and 7791 references. GAD represents records from 1146 different sampling sites spanning geological history from the Precambrian to the Phanerozoic, and the fossil records include 1456 genera and 9865 species (excluding sp.).
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint