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Table 2 Diatom proxies for sea surface temperature in the northwest Pacific

From: The Pliocene to recent history of the Kuroshio and Tsushima Currents: a multi-proxy approach

Td′

Warm-water species

Cold-water species

 

Actinocyclus ellipticus Grunow

Actinocyclus curvatulus Janisch

 

A. elongatus Grunow

A. ochotensis Jousé

 

Alveus marinus (Grunow) Kaczmarska & Fryxell

Asteromphalus hyalinus Karsten

 

Asterolampra marylandica Ehrenberg

A. robustus Castracane

 

Asteromphalus arachne (Brebisson) Ralfs

Bacterosira fragilis Gran

 

A. flabellatus (Brebisson) Greville

Chaetoceros furcellatus Bailey

 

A. imbricatus Wallich

Coscinodiscus marginatus Ehrenberg

 

A. pettersonii (Kolbe) Thorrington-Smith

C. oculus-iridis Ehrenberg

 

A. sarcophagus Wallich

Fragilariopsis cylindrus (Grunow) Krieger

 

Azpeitia africanus (Janisch) Fryxell & Watkins

F. oceanica (Cleve) Hasle

 

A. nodulifera (Schmidt) Fryxell & Sims

Neodenticula seminae (Simonsen & Kanaya) Akiba & Yanagisawa

 

A. tabularis (Grunow) Fryxell & Sims

Porosira glacilis (Grunow) Jorgensen

 

Fragilariopsis doliolus (Wallich) Medlin & Sims

Rhizosolenia hebetata (Bailey) Gran

 

Hemidiscus cuneiformis Wallich

Thalassiosira gravida Cleve

 

Nitzschia interruptestriata Simonsen

T. hyalina (Grunow) Gran

 

N. kolaczekii Grunow

T. kryophila (Grunow) Joergensen

 

Planktoniella sol (Wallich) Schütt

T. nordenskioldii Cleve

 

Pseudosolenia calcar-avis (Schültze) Sundstrom

T. trifulta Fryxell

 

Rhizosolenia acuminata (Peragallo) Gran

  

R. bergonii Peragallo

  

R. hebetata (Bailey) Gran f. semispina (Hersen) Gran

  

R. imbricata Brightwell

  

Roperia tessellata (Roper) Grunow

  

Thalassiosira leptopus (Grunow) Hasle & Fryxell

  

T. oestrupii (Osterfeld) Proshkina-Lavrenko

  

Twt

  

Xw of Twt

Xt of Twt

Xc of Twt

Warm-water species without Thalassiosira oestrupii of Td′

Coscinodiscus radiatus Ehrenberg

Cold-water species of Td′

Fragilariopsis fossilis (Frenguelli) Medlin & Sims

Thalassionema nitzschioides Grunow s.l.

Actinocyclus oculatus Jousé

F. reinholdii (Kanaya emend Barron & Baldauf) Zielinski & Gersonde

Thalassiosira oestrupii (Osterfeld) Proshkina-Lavrenko

Neodenticula kamtschatica (Zabelina) Akiba & Yanagisawa

Nitzschia jouseae Burckle

 

N. koizumii Akiba & Yanagisawa

N. miocenica Burckle

 

Proboscia barboi (Brun) Jordan & Priddle

Rhizosolenia praebergonii Mukhina

 

P. curvirostris (Jousé) Jordan & Priddle

Thalassiosira convexa Mukhina

 

Thalassiosira nidulus (Tempère & Brun) Jousé

T. miocenica Schrader

  

T. praecovexa Burckle

  
  1. The list includes diatoms used to calculate Td′ = SST (Koizumi 2008) and the “paleoclimate curve” Twt (Barron 1992)