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On Some Volgian Ammonites and Their Nomenclatural Types

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Nomenclature types of ammonites of the genera Dorsoplanites, Pavlovia, Zaraiskites and Craspedites from the Volgian Stage of the Russian platform are discussed; for some species type specimens are designated and illustrated. The date of the establishment of the genus Pavlovia Ilovaisky, 1915 is emended, and it type species is detailed. The name Ammonites panderi Eichwald, 1840 is recognized as nomen dubium; for the species Dorsoplanites panderi auctt. non Eichwald, 1840 the new name D. typicus nom. nov. is proposed; the index species of the Panderi Zone of the Volgian Stage is replaced by Zaraiskites scythicus (Vischniakoff). The species Craspedites ivanovi Gerasimov, the index species of the upper subzone of the Virgatites virgatus Zone is re-described. The interval with Craspedites milkovensis can be only considered as the terminal faunal horizon of the Craspedites nodiger Zone interpreted to include the Mosquensis and Nodiger subzones.

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  1. Although both papers are dated as having been published the same year, the Russian-language version was signed by a censor for publication on 8 April 1840, and the German version was signed on 16 July 1840.

  2. This collection includes ammonites from a section from Moscow and its vicinity, labelled as Ammonites panderi, but most certainly collected later than 1840, as Eichwald did not mention Moscow and its vicinities in the descriptions of Am. panderi in either version of his 1840 paper.

  3. The exact citation is “… Pavlovia, Ilovaisky (including Pallasiceras, Spath) … must be interpreted by P. iatriensis var. primaria, Ilovaisky (1917, p. 93, pl. i, figs. 1a–1d, pl. xxiii, fig. 1b)” (Spath, 1931, pp. 470–471), which is not a valid fixation of the types species under Article 67.5 of the ICZN Code.

  4. Mitta et al. (1999, p. 35) erroneously referred to this specimen as to the lectotype.

  5. Rouillier publishes a series of papers under the general title Études progressives sur la géologie de Moscou, partly signed by C. Rouillier and A. Vosinsky. The description of Ammonites quenstedti was published in the paper Cinquième etude in this series, with no signature. In the list of contents for this Bulletin volume Rouillier is listed as the author of this paper, while the plates with illustrations of the fossils related to this paper are signed by Rouillier and Fahrenkohl (Mitta, 1993).

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

While preparing this manuscript the authors consulted Svetlana Nikolaeva (PIN) on nomenclatural issues. The nomenclature of the genus Pavlovia was discussed with Prof. Raymond Enay (Lyon, France). The curators of museum collections discussed in the paper kindly helped this research: N.M. Kadlets (TsNIGR Museum), G.M. Gataulina (SPbGU), A. Prieur (Lyon, France). Ammonite photography was thanks to V.T. Antonova, A.V. Mazin, and C.V. Bagirov (PIN). The authors are sincerely grateful to all those who helped in preparing this publication. The study was partly supported by the Presidium of the Russian Academy of sciences no. 17 “Evolution of the Organic World and Planetary processes.”

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Mitta, V.V., Starodubtseva, I.A. On Some Volgian Ammonites and Their Nomenclatural Types. Paleontol. J. 52, 469–480 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030118050076

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