Recent Ostracoda from the Laptev Sea (Arctic Siberia): species assemblages and some environmental relationships

Ostracods of the Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene Punta Mazza succession (NE Sicily) with special focus on the Family Trachyleberididae Sylvester-Bradley, 1948, and description of a new species

“…The first two species are indicated as psychrospheric by BEN- SON (1972a). Regarding Cytheropteron testudo SARS, 1869, the data acquired until now on geographic, stratigraphic and bathymetric distribution of this species (MONTCHARMONT-ZEI et al, 1985;DINGLE & LORD, 1990;SWANSON & AYRESS, 1999;STEPANOVA et al, 2003;JELLINEK et al, 2006;FARANDA & GLIOZZI, 2011 inter alias) leads to the conclusion that C. testudo could be considered as a stenothermic species restricted to very cold waters independently of depth. Similarly, Bythocypris obtusata has been reported from the Norwegian and British coasts between 145 and 165 m water depth by SARS (1928) and in the Recent Mediterranean Sea at depths between 150 and 2905 m by PURI et al (1969).…”

Arctic quaternary ostracods and their use in paleoreconstructions

“…We used pub lished data on the distribution of ostracods in the Arc tic seas, Western Europe, and the Arctic Ocean (Cro nin et al, 1991; Shornikov, 2001Shornikov, , 2004, etc.) and our own database on ostracods in the Kara and Laptev seas (Stepanova et al, 2003(Stepanova et al, , 2007Stepanova, 2006). All Pleistocene-Holocene species studied are known from modern seas; depth and salinity ranges can be determined for most of them.…”

“…The first publications on their taxonomy came out by the end of the 19th century and represented short descrip tions and illustrations of ostracods mostly from the western European Arctic. Within the last 40 years many detailed taxonomic papers with descriptions and scanning micrographs of recent ostracods were pub lished (Neale and Howe, 1975;Whatley and Masson, 1979;Whatley and Coles, 1987;Athersuch et al, 1989;Brouwers, 1990Brouwers, , 1993Brouwers, , 1994Whatley et al, 1996Whatley et al, , 1998Stepanova et al, 2003Stepanova et al, , 2004Stepanova et al, , 2007Stepanova, 2006) as well as the databases on the distri bution of recent Arctic ostracods (Cronin et al, 1991;Shornikov, 2001Shornikov, , 2004. These works contain precise information on the depth, salinity, and temperature of the environments inhabited by different ostracod spe cies and thus can be used for paleoenvironmental reconstructions.…”

“…Lev (1972Lev ( , 1983 analyzed in detail ostracod assemblages from the Neogene-Quaternary deposits of the Malaya Zemlya tundra, Western Siberian Lowland, Arctic islands, Taimyr Peninsula, and northern part of the Gulf of Anadyr and described ostracod assemblages that can be used for stratigraphic correlation of depos its from different regions. She subdivided ostracods in three groups according to the salinity tolerance range (euhaline (30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40), brachyhaline (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30), pliohaline (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)) and in four groups according to their tem perature preference (arctic, subarctic, moderately cold water, moderately warm water). T. Cronin (1977Cronin ( , 1981Cronin ( , 1989) studied and interpreted ostracod assemblages from the Champlain Sea (Gulf of St. Lawrence).…”

Central Arctic Ocean paleoceanography from ∼ 50 ka to present, on the basis of ostracode faunal assemblages from the SWERUS 2014 expedition

“…gov/paleo-search/). The primary sources of taxonomy and ecology were papers by Cronin et al (1994Cronin et al ( , 1995Cronin et al ( , 2010, Gemery et al (2015), Joy and Clark (1977), Stepanova (2006), Stepanova et al (2003Stepanova et al ( , 2007Stepanova et al ( , 2010, Whatley et al (1996Whatley et al ( , 1998, and Yasuhara et al (2014).…”