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    STUDIA GEOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2012  
         
  Article:   "ROSALINA" MARGINATA REUSS 1845 (FORAMINIFERA) AND ITS TAXONOMIC POSITION.

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  Abstract:   The central idea of this article is the obligation of a micropaleontologist to respect without any doubt therules and demands stipulated by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), in order toavoid taxonomical mistakes. An unusual example of confusion generated by disregard for the ICZN Code rules isthe case of Rosalina marginata REUSS. The species Rosalina marginata REUSS, 1845 emend. REUSS, 1854 ishere transferred to the genus Dicarinella. Other specimens illustrated as “Marginotruncana marginata” forexample the “neotype” established by Jirova (1956) are placed in the new species Marginotruncana pseudomarginata nom. novum.

Key words: Upper Cretaceous, planktonic foraminifera, taxonomy, new name.
 
         
     
         
         
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