[Taxacom] Zoological genus names - pseudofossils

[Geoff Read]

I was slightly confused, but have sorted myself out.  Part W Miscellanea
was published in 1962 and has a chapt on Trace Fossils. What Tony gave a
link to was Part W Miscellanea *SUPPLEMENT 1*, published in 1975, which is
entirely a revised and expanded work on Trace Fossils by Hantzschel, and
without the chapters on Worms and Conodonts present in the original W
volume.

So there are two different W volumes, when perhaps the extra volume should
have been assigned a succeeding letter of the alphabet, or had a clearer
indication of content by its title. IMHO.

Geoff

On Mon, December 9, 2019 7:34 pm, Tony Rees via Taxacom wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As part of the quality control for the Interim Register of Marine and
> Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) I am interested in noting published genus names
> that have since been proposed to be pseudofossils, so that I can remove
> them from categories where they would otherwise appear to be accepted
> names
> within legitimate higher taxa. I note the following statement from a
> chapter on "Pseudo-Traces" within the 2007 book "Trace Fossil Analysis":
>
> "The last edition of the *Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology*, part W,
> lists 245 ichnogenera and no less than 76 “genera” of pseudofossils
> (not
> counting synonyms)"
>
> If anyone can send me either a scan or a transcription of the cited list I
> would greatly appreciate it... (I will be interested in synonyms as well
> as
> valid names). Otherwise I would be pleased to know if there are other
> lists
> of names currently regarded as pseudofossils in existence so I can check
> off the names therein against my own list.
>
> Thanks in advance - Tony
>


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Geoffrey B. Read, Ph.D.
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