This dataset is a component of the PAN-Arctic data collection of benthic BIOtas (PANABIO) and has been collated during the Census of Marine Life project Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD; http://www.arcodiv.org/). It contains a total of 1,485 presence and/or abundance records of 137 megabenthic taxa (species to genus level) identified in 11 dredge catches taken at 11 stations located in the Laptev Sea at water depths of 14–44 m during a cruise in 1993. The dataset is also available in a PostgreSQL-based data warehouse that can be accessed and queried through an open-access frontend web service at https://critterbase.awi.de/panabio.