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Problems of Ammonite Nomenclature

VIII. On Ammonites cordatus and A. serratus, J. Sowerby

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

L. F. Spath
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The International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature aim at the “elimination of all possibilities of discussion”; and in troubled times like the present, when it is impossible to secure decision on a knotty problem by the International Commission, automatic solution of any nomenclatorial difficulty should be particularly welcome. We all know of certain genera that have caused trouble to revisers because they were based on several species, subsequently found to belong to more than one genus; likewise species have often been based on a number of differing specimens, some of which have in course of time been relegated to other species or genera. Now Opinion 88 claims that the procedure to be followed in such cases is well known, but on this point there appears to be some doubt, and I therefore propose to discuss the two species mentioned in the above title1.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 80 , Issue 3 , June 1943 , pp. 111 - 117
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1943

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1 Both were described in 1813 in vol. i of Mineral Conchology, p. 51, p1. xvii, figs. 2 and 4 (Amm. cordatus) and p. 65, p1. xxiv (Amm. serratus).Google Scholar

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1 The Ammonite Zones of the Upper Oxfordian of Oxford, and the Horizons of the Sowerby's and Buckman's Types. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., xcii, 1936, 152. See also Monograph Corallian Ammonites, pt. viii, 1942, 243.Google Scholar

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2 Type Ammonites, iii, 1920, p1. 155 (“Prionoceras”). Buckman's P. excentricum (Geol. Mag., v, 1924, p1. 464) seems to be merely an individual variation of P. prionodes.Google Scholar

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1 Blake, in 1875, spoke of Amm. serratus as being “ plentiful”, and he recorded a peculiar form of that species “like Sowerby's original”, occurring “in abundance” in Lincolnshire. Elsewhere, he spoke of Amm. serratus“of the Sowerbyan form” in Yorkshire, (On the Kimmeridge Clay of England. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., xxxi, 1875, 208, 209, 210).Google Scholar

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4 The presence of glue on the last septal surface shows that part of the outer whorl has been detached and apparently discarded.

1 The specimen is too badly corroded after that stage.

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1 Op. cit. (Milne Land, i), 1935, p. 25. The “ trituberculate ” stage in this species begins at a diameter at which A. (P.) serratum is already becoming smooth. The outer nodes are less projected than in A. (P.) glosense, more angular, and increase in prominence with age.

2 Revision of the Jurassic Cephalopod Fauna of Kachh. Mem. Geol. Surv. India, Pal. Indica., N.S., ix, No. 2, part vi, 1933, 863, 868.Google Scholar

3 Type to be Damon's original in the British Museum (N.H. No. C. 3305) ; see footnote 2, p. 115.

4 In the Table of Ammonite Zones given in 1935 (Spath, op. cit., Milne Land, i, 74) the species of Amoeboceras of the anglica zone should have been A. marstonense, which is associated in the same bed with A. (P.) ogivale, Buckman sp. (Type to be Damon's original in the British Museum (N.H. No. C. 3305) ; p. 18, footnote 1) and undescribed forms.