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Where is Polypothecia Benett, 1831?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Earle E. Spamer  and
Arthur E. Bogan
Earle E. Spamer
Affiliation:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-1195
Arthur E. Bogan
Affiliation:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-1195
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The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1990, Op. 1609) ruled that A catalogue of the organic remains of the County of Wilts by Benett (1831b) is an available work for the purposes of taxonomic nomenclature. Prior to the ruling, there was some question about the availability of her privately printed catalogue, in which she erected many validly proposed taxa by name and figure or by indication to previously available works. The ICZN Opinion cited the paper by Spamer et al. (1989) as documentation of the taxonomic nomenclature used by Benett and the disposition of her collection in which there is type material for species proposed by her and by other authors.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 67 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 156 - 157
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