Name: Ortonella Garwood 1914

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. dim. n. Ortonella, from the village of Orton

Gender: feminine (stem: Ortonell-)

Type species: Ortonella furcata Garwood 1914

Valid publication: Garwood EJ. III. Some new Rock-building Organisms from the Lower Carboniferous Beds of Westmorland. Geological Magazine 1914; 1:265-271.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Cladogirvanella Ott 1966	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Dragastan (1985) assigned this genus to the family Scytonemataceae corrig. Frank 1886. Publication: Dragastan O. Review of Tethyan Mesozoic Algae of Romania. In: Toomey DF, Nitecki MH (eds), Paleoalgology. Contemporary research and applications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 1985, p. 101-161.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Orlonella".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Ortonella cipitensis (Ott 1966) Dragastan 1985	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Ortonella furcata Garwood 1914	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Ortonella lemoineae Dragastan 1971	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: [Garwoodiaceae]

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Record number: 43148