Name: Eomycetopsis schopfii Nautiyal 1980

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: schop’fi.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. schopfii, named in honor of Prof. J. William Schopf for his contribution on microscopic algal remains to Precambrian geology

Pronunciation, gender: S͡HOP-fi-i, feminine

Holotype: Figure 1n; Slide no. Pith. 22/2; Slide Pith. 22/2

Valid publication: Nautiyal AC. Cyanophycean algal remains and paleoecology of the precambrian gangolihat dolomites formation of the Kumaun Himalaya. Indian J. Earth Sci. 1980; 7:1-11.

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

Taxonomic status: orphaned species

• Notes:
  • ❗ Eomycetopsis schopfii is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Eomycetopsis.
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Parent taxon: Eomycetopsis Schopf 1968

Assigned by: Nautiyal AC. Cyanophycean algal remains and paleoecology of the precambrian gangolihat dolomites formation of the Kumaun Himalaya. Indian J. Earth Sci. 1980; 7:1-11.

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Record number: 44288