Body size and geographic distribution of foraminiferal specimens during the Frasnian-Famennian (Frasnian), Guadalupian-Lopingian (Capitanian), Permian-Triassic (Changhsingian), Triassic-Jurassic (Rhaetian), and Cretaceous-Paleogene (Maastrichtian) mass extinctions.

This dataset is about body size and geographic distribution of foraminiferal specimens during the Frasnian-Famennian (Frasnian), Guadalupian-Lopingian (Capitanian), Permian-Triassic (Changhsingian), Triassic-Jurassic (Rhaetian), and Cretaceous-Paleogene (Maastrichtian) mass extinctions. Foraminiferal body size data collection First, we collected published papers with foraminiferal images from the Frasnian (382.7-372.2 Ma), Capitanian (264.28-259.51 Ma), Changhsingian (254.14-251.902 Ma), Rhaetian (208.5-201.3 Ma), and Maastrichtian (72.1-66.1 Ma). Second, we measured two primary axes of specimens, such as maximum length and height in a conical or cylindrical shell. For some specimens, where there is no way to measure the length of both axes, we calculate the length of the unknown axis based on the aspect ratio of the type species. Third, we used the test volume as a standard indicator of body size, taking into account the diversity of foraminiferal morphology. Finally, the test volumes were calculated on a logarithmic scale with base 10 due to large individual differences, and the specific calculation is shown in Feng et al. (2020).