New name for Silurian graptolite from NSW

Authors

R B. Rickards, University of CambridgeFollow
G H. Packham, University of Sydney
Anthony J. Wright, University of WollongongFollow
Penelope Williamson, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

19083

Publication Details

Rickards, R. B., Packham, G. H., Wright, A. J. & Williamson, P. L. (2003). New name for Silurian graptolite from NSW. Alcheringa: an Australian journal of palaeontology, 27 (1), 77-77.

Abstract

Bohemograptus urbaneki Rickards et al. ( 1905, p. 54, figs 31L-M, 32H) from the Ludlow of the Spring- Quarry Creek area of New South Wales is a primary homonym of B. urbaneki Tsegelnjuk (1976, p. 129, pl. XL, figs 10-12) from the Ludlow of the Brest Depression. Further, we now consider that our species should be assigned to Lobograptus Urbanek, 1958, and here rename this species Lobograptusjeremii, in memory of Jeremy Rickards, on the basis of his contribution to studies of graptolite hydrodynamics. As we noted in Rickards et al.