Evolutionary Classification and English-Based Nomenclature in Cretaceous Planktic Foraminifera

Georgescu, M. Dan (EDT); Henderson, Charles M. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1633219593 / ISBN 13: 9781633219595

Edité par Nova Science Pub Inc, 2014

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• Titre: Evolutionary Classification and English-Based Nomenclature in Cretaceous Planktic Foraminifera
• Éditeur: Nova Science Pub Inc
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1633219593
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781633219595
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

In this book, evolutionary classification and nomenclature in the Cretaceous planktic foraminifera with at least one stage with chambers alternately added with respect to the test growth axis are analysed in seven articles. The first article in this book presents new data about the group's evolutionary origin and different aspects of the iterative evolution of the planktic habitat in the foraminiferal history, together with a critical review of some past ideas on this topic. A new benthic foraminiferal genus is described. The evolution of different lineages is presented in five successive articles, which show the importance of high resolution data in reconstructing the group's evolutionary history. Four new lineages are described. A new perspective on the classification of the planktic foraminifera is presented in the last article, where at the scale of the entire group a new and upward evolutionary classification, is applied. The fundamental unit of organisation is changed from species to lineage through a shift at paradigm level in understanding the evolution of the fossil record. In further developments in evolutionary classification, a new nomenclature system is applied. The new nomenclature uses English instead of Latin and has a rate of compression of around 1:18 (one English word for 18 Latin words).

À propos de l?auteur

The author received the Ph.D. degree at the University of Bucharest (Romania) in foraminiferal micropaleontology and biostratigraphy with a thesis on the upper Jurassic and Cretaceous planktic foraminifera in the Romanian Western Black Sea offshore. It was followed by three postdoctoral fellowships at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey as Senior Fulbright Fellow, at the University of Milan as NATO Fellow and at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. His research focuses especially on the development of the Theory of Evolution and evolutionary classification and nomenclature based on the data form the Cretaceous planktic foraminifera worldwide.