Taxonomically revised dataset of acanthomorphic acritarch species of the Doushantuo Formation: dataset for rarefaction, NMDS, and network analysis

This is supplementary material for the article entitled "Silicified microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation along a shelf margin-slope-basin transect in Hunan Province, South China, with stratigraphical implications" by Ouyang et al. The dataset contains (1) taxonomic revisions of published acanthomorph specimens from the Doushantuo Formation from 55 previous publications that provide clear, pulished, microfossil images and clearly designated stratigraphic horizons; and updated occurrence data of Doushantuo acanthomorphic acritarchs and certain sphaeromorphic taxa considered as stratigraphically useful (i.e., Schizofusa zangwenlongii Grey, 2005) based on the revised taxonomy, with each occurrence assigned to a specific fossil collection; (2) acritarch relative abundance data from this and six previous publications for rarefaction analysis in this study; (3) presence/absence data of the Doushantuo acritarchs (based on occurrence data in sheet 1) for NMDS and network analysis with R in this study; (4) species abbreviations in (3); (5) species loadings generated by the NMDS analysis and plotted in Fig. 41.3 of this study.