Name: Conophyton Maslov 1937

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Co.no’phy.ton. N.L. neut. n. Conophyton

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Conophyt-), ko-NO-p^hy-ton

Type species: Conophyton lituum corrig. Maslov 1937

Valid publication: Maslov VP. O rasprostranenii karbonatnykh vodoroslej v Vostochnoj Sibiri. Materialy k poznaniju iskopaemykh vodoroslej SSSR. Etyud VI [On the distribution of calcareous algae in East Siberia. Materials to the knowledge of the fossil algae of the USSR. Étude VI]. Problemy Paleontologii 1937; 2-3:327-348.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Tschichatschevia Vologdin 1955	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Conophytaceae corrig. Konyushkov 1978. Publication: Konyushkov KN. O diagnosticheskikh priznakakh i sistematike stromatolitov dokembriya [On diagnostic features and systematics of Precambrian stromatolites]. [in Russian. Biostratigraficheskii Sbornik 1978; 289:74-83.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Conophytonidae Konyushkov 1978. Publication: Konyushkov KN. O diagnosticheskikh priznakakh i sistematike stromatolitov dokembriya [On diagnostic features and systematics of Precambrian stromatolites]. [in Russian. Biostratigraficheskii Sbornik 1978; 289:74-83.
  • 🧕 Konyushkov (1978) assigned this genus to the family Conophytaceae corrig. Konyushkov 1978. Publication: Konyushkov KN. O diagnosticheskikh priznakakh i sistematike stromatolitov dokembriya [On diagnostic features and systematics of Precambrian stromatolites]. [in Russian. Biostratigraficheskii Sbornik 1978; 289:74-83.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Tschichatschevia Vologdin 1955. Publication: Vologdin AG. O konofitonakh proterozoja i kembrija Sibirskoj platformy [On Conophyta of Proterozoic and Cambrian of the Siberian platform]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 1955; 102:609-611.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Conophyion"; "Conophylton".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Conophyton concellosum Liang and Tsao 1974	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Conophyton hemisphaericum corrig. Maslov 1937	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Conophyton hemisphaericus Maslov 1937	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Conophyton inclinatum Rezak 1957	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Conophyton lijiadunense corrig. Tsao and Liang 1974	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Conophyton lijiadunensis Tsao and Liang 1974	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Conophyton lituum corrig. Maslov 1937	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Conophyton lituus Maslov 1937	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Conophyton vindhyaense Misra et al. 1977	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Lopatinellaceae Vologdin 1962

Assigned by: Vologdin AG. Drevnejshie vodorosli SSSR [Ancient Algae of the USSR]. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR. [in Russian], Moscow, 1962.

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Record number: 52056