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Table T2. Diatom taxa species and authorities with presence/absence data for selected depths, Site M0060.

Affinity
Life form
Diatoms
7.5 mbsf
9 mbsf
10.5 mbsf
F Epipelic and epilithic Amphora copulata (Kützing) Schoeman and Archibald   x x
F Pelagic Aulacoseira ambigua (Grunow) Simonsen   x  
F Pelagic Aulacoseira granulata (Ehrenberg) Simonsen      
F Pelagic Auloacoseira islandica (O. Müller) Simonsen x c x
F Epipsammic Cocconeis disculus (Schumann) Cleve x    
BF Epiphytic and epilithic Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg x x  
B Pelagic Coscinodiscus granii Gough     x
M   Fragilaria capensis Grunow   x  
BM Epiphytic Gomphonemopsis exigua (Kützing) L.K. Medlin   x  
F Epipsammic Karayevia clevei (Grunow) Bukhtiyarova      
M Epiphitic Licmophora abbreviata C. Agardh   x  
F Epipsammic Martyana martyii (Héribaud-Joseph) Round x   x
B Epipsammic Martyana schulzii (Brockmann) Snoeijs x c  
B Epipelic Navicula peregrina (Ehrenberg) Kützing   x  
B Epipsammic and epiphytic Opephora mutabilis (Grunow) Sabbe and Wyverman     x
B Tychoplanktonic Paralia sulcata (Ehrenberg) Cleve      
M Epipelic Pinnularia cruciformis (Donkin) Cleve   x  
B Epipelic Pinnularia halophila Krammer   x  
M Benthic Plagiogramma staurophorum (W. Gregory) Heiberg     x
BF Episammic and epilithic Planothidium delicatulum (Kützing) Round and Bukhtiyarova     x
BM Epiphytic and epilithic Rhabdonema arcuatum (Lyngbye) Kützing      
BF Epipelic and epilithic Rhopalodia gibba (Ehrenberg) O. Müller   x  
F Pelagic Stephanodiscus neoastraea Håkansson and Hickel   x  
B Pelagic Thalassiosira hyperborea var. lacunosa Hasle     x
M? Pelagic Thalassiosira oestrupii (Ostenfeld) Hasle      

F = freshwater, BF = brackish-freshwater, B = brackish, BM = brackish-marine, M = marine. x = present, c = common.

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