Table A5.

Sea Surface Temperature data for extant taxa from NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory database

Taxon	Winter SST	Summer SST	Median SST
Erignathus barbatus	0–2	8–10	5
Cystophora cristata	0–2	8–10	5
Histriophoca fasciata	0–2	12–14	7
Pagophilus groenlandicus	0–2	12–14	7
Phoca largha	0–2	26–28	14
Phoca vitulina	0–2	22–24	12
Halichoerus grypus	2–4	18–20	10
Pusa caspica	0–2	24–26	13
Pusa sibirica	0–2	15	7.5
Pusa hispida	0–2	12–14	7
Monachus monachus	14–16	26–28	21
Neomonachus schauinslandi	22–24	28–29	25.5
Neomonachus tropicalis	24–26	29–30	27
Mirounga leonina	0–2	10–16	8
Mirounga angustirostris	4–6	18–20	12
Lobodon carcinophagus	0–2	6–8	4
Ommatophoca rossii	0–2	6–8	4
Hydrurga leptonyx	0–2	6–8	4
Leptonychotes weddellii	0–2	6–8	4