Taxacom: Quick question RE availability of a name in zoology (was animal, now pseudofossil)

[Tony Rees]

Thanks David. The concretion/gastropod name to which you refer above
is Dinocochlea, on which there is a good overview article (with photograph
of cast or model) on Wikipedia.

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 00:24, David Campbell via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> >
> >  Which potentially contradicts the work of animals (proposed after 1930)
> > being excluded from the provisions of the Code. What if the work of an
> > animal was originally mistaken for an animal itself?
> >
>
> Although there has been debate about the exact interpretation, the
> consensus seems to be that names invalidated under these provisions are
> ones proposed knowing that the taxon fell into one of the categories, not
> ones corrected by subsequent discovery.  The work of modern animals  is
> contrasted nomenclaturally with fossilized traces, which are still nameable
> under the ICZN code.  I don't remember the genus now, but there's a name
> originally proposed to be a fossil gastropod, reinterpreted as a plant, and
> now recognized as a spiral coprolite.  The genus can be used for coprolites
> and could not be re-used for animals.
>
> As another example, there was considerable debate over using the genus
> name *Cornu
> *in gastropods, because the original specimen was a mutant individual.
> However, in the description, Born (1778) shows no awareness that he had a
> weird mutant form of a common species, so the genus *Cornu *is available.
>
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