Open AccessLepidostrobus kentuckiensis , nomen nov., formerly Lepidostrobus Fischeri , Scott and Jeffrey: a correction
Author(s) -
D. H. Scott
Publication year - 1915
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series b, containing papers of a biological character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9185
pISSN - 0950-1193
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.1915.0006
Subject(s) - philosophy , classics , correct name , history , biology , genealogy , paleontology
In a paper by Prof. Jeffrey and myself, published in the ‘Philosophical Transactions ,’ last year, we described, a new species ofLepidostrobus from the Waverley Shale of Kentucky, under the name,Lepidostrobus Fiseheri . My friend, Prof. R. Zeiller of Paris, has now kindly pointed out to me that the specific nameFischeri is not admissible, another fossil cone having been described in 1890 by M. B. Renault, under the same name,Lepidostrobus Fischeri . I am sorry to have overlooked this reference, an oversight for which I am solely responsible. Our fossil must now receive a new name and it is unfortunate that it is no longer possible to record in the specific designation the name of the discoverer, Mr. Moritz Fischer. The name I now propose for our cone isLepidostrobus kentuckiensis , after the State in which the plant-bearing deposit occurs. The diagnosis is briefly repeated below.