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Main Authors: Farmer, Jesse R, Martínez-García, Alfredo, Sentman, Lori, Schiebel, Ralf, Arns, Anthea, Yehudai, Maayan, Tiedemann, Ralf, Sigman, Daniel M, Haug, Gerald H
Format: Dataset Open Access
Language:en
Published: PANGAEA 2025
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.974971
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  • We investigated the Early Pliocene (5.3 to 3.6 million years ago) history of oceanic exchange across the Central American Seaway using a suite of geochemical measurements on planktonic foraminifera at Ocean Drilling Program Sites 165-999A (Caribbean Sea) and 1241 (Eastern Tropical North Pacific). Foraminifera-bound nitrogen isotopes were performed on Trilobatus sacculifer and combined samples of Globortalia menardii and Globortalia tumida, and measured via the persulfate-denitrifier methodology at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. We also collated existing planktonic foraminifer oxygen isotope measurements and Mg/Ca in T. sacculifer from Sites 165-999A and 202-1241 (Haug et al., 2001; Groeneveld & Tiedemann, 2005; Steph et al., 2006). These data were used to calculate sea surface temperature and the oxygen isotope composition of seawater using PSU Solver (Thirumalai et al., 2016).