Keywords: ADOMIS; Bitectatodinium spongium; Brigentedinium spp.; Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; CTD/Rosette; CTD-RO; DEPTH, sediment/rock; DEPTH, water; Dinoflagellate cyst, gonyaulacoid; Dinoflagellate cyst, peridinioids; Dinoflagellate cyst per unit mass; Dinoflagellate cysts; Dubridinium spp.; Echinidinium aculeatum; Echinidinium delicatum; Echinidinium granulatum; Echinidinium spp.; Echinidinium transparantum; Echinidinium zonneveldii; Event label; GeoB; GeoB20317-4; GeoB20318-4; GeoB20321-2; GeoB20325-1; GeoB20326-3; GeoB20327-1; GeoB20328-1; GeoB20329-1; GeoB20330-3; GeoB20331-7; GeoB20332-1; Geosciences, University of Bremen; Gymnodinium microreticulatum cyst; Impagidinium aculeatum; Impagidinium paradoxum; Impagidinium patulum; Impagidinium spp.; Lejeunecysta paratenella; Lingulodinium machaerophorum; Maria S. Merian; MARUM; MSM48; MSM48_567-4; MSM48_568-4; MSM48_570-2; MSM48_575-1; MSM48_576-3; MSM48_577; MSM48_578-1; MSM48_579-1; MSM48_580-3; MSM48_581-7; MSM48_582-1; MSN; MUC; MultiCorer; Multiple opening/closing net; Nematosphaeropsis labyrinthus; nepheloid layer; Operculodinium centrocarpum; Operculodinium israelianum; particle transport; Pentapharsodinium dalei cyst; Percentage counted; Polykrikos spp.; Protoperidinium americanum cyst; Protoperidinium monospinum cyst; Sample code/label; Selenopemphix nephroides; Selenopemphix quanta; South Atlantic Ocean; Spiniferites spp.; Stelladinium stellatum; Total counts; Volume; Xandarodinium xanthum