| Reference Type | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
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| Title | Problems of Ammonite Nomenclature |
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| Journal | Geological Magazine |
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| Authors | Spath, L. F. | Author |
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| Year | 1939 (October) | Volume | 76 |
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| Issue | 10 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| DOI | doi:10.1017/s0016756800072423 |
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| Mindat Ref. ID | 246988 | Long-form Identifier | mindat:1:5:246988:5 |
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| Full Reference | Spath, L. F. (1939) Problems of Ammonite Nomenclature. Geological Magazine, 76 (10) 451-454 doi:10.1017/s0016756800072423 |
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| Plain Text | Spath, L. F. (1939) Problems of Ammonite Nomenclature. Geological Magazine, 76 (10) 451-454 doi:10.1017/s0016756800072423 |
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| In | (1939, October) Geological Magazine Vol. 76 (10) Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| Abstract/Notes | While descriptions of new ammonites and of entirely new faunas are constantly being published, and (like progress in other sciences) seem, on the whole, to be rather welcomed, some palaeontologists are beginning to deplore the “smothering” of our science “by the abundance of its own material”. I do not agree that systematic palaeontology is in the chaotic state depicted by these authors; in any case, the description of new ammonites will continue. But the question of how authors deal with their “species” is rather different. It has been suggested that older authors, like Quenstedt, still had a very clear conception as to what constituted a “Formenkreis”, but that their successors have lost this sense. Yet as regards atomization of species I do not think that many of the younger palaeontologists will emulate the veteran A. v. Koenen's notorious example of splitting up into innumerable “species” what is virtually a single form of Platyknticeras. By way of contrast, Ilovaïsky, also at an advanced age, established an extraordinarily large number of varieties in a single species of Pavlovia, but his procedure similarly has not been repeated. |
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