Pollen atlas and identification dataset from Santa Catarina, south Brazil

Pollen references such as atlas and identification keys are re-markably rare from the Atlantic coasts of south Brazil. This dataset describes modern and fossil pollen from Sao Fran-cisco do Sul Bay in the state of Santa Catarina, south Brazil. An illustrated and descriptive atlas of pollen was compiled from original and published data to facilitate the identifica-tion of various pollen taxa in sediments. We include light micrographs and descriptions of a total of 60 pollen taxa, including 3 mangrove taxa, 27 coastal woodland (restinga) taxa, and 15 rainforest taxa, and 15 herbaceous taxa. This dataset is associated with a published research article by Ro-drigues et al. (2022) -Rodrigues, E., Cohen, M.C.L., Pessenda, L.C.R., Franca, M.C., Magalhaes, E. and Yao, Q., 2022. Pole -ward mangrove expansion in South America coincides with MCA and CWP: A diatom, pollen, and organic geochemistry study. Quaternary Science Reviews, 288, p.107598.(c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )