Paleonet: question about holotype specimens

[Alvaro Mones]

as I have not access to JSTOR I would greatly appreciate if someone could send me a PDF of Frizell's article.

Many thanks

Alvaro

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Eng 
  To: 'PaleoNet' 
  Sent: Friday, 24 August, 2007 17:55
  Subject: Re: Paleonet: question about holotype specimens


  Greetings,

  Frizell's article is old, but it can still be useful as a reference.

  Terminology of Types 
    Donald Leslie Frizzell  American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 14, No. 6. (Nov., 1933), pp. 637-668. 
  And it's available: http://www.jstor.org/view/00030031/di003265/00p0235o/0

  Regards,
  Ron

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    From: paleonet-bounces+rceng=u.washington.edu at nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-bounces+rceng=u.washington.edu at nhm.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Georgiana L Wingard
    Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 7:47 AM
    To: PaleoNet
    Subject: Re: Paleonet: question about holotype specimens



    Not to add more to this interesting discussion, but I pulled out  my treasured taxonomic procedures folder, inherited from Norm Sohl, and came across Frizell's 1933 "Terminology of Types" published in the American Midland Naturalist.  He lists many terms that aren't in common usage today, but several seem applicable to Jozsef's problem.   

    He defines Holotype I as "a single specimen (or fragment) upon which a species is based.  See holaedoeotypus." 
    Holaedoeotypus (a term I've never heard) is defined as "an aedoeotypus, the preparation being made from the holotype of the species." So if Jozsef's mould is not natural and if this term is still used, it seems this is what he has.  (Any one else ever heard of or used this term?) 

    There's also plastotype - "an artificial specimen moulded directly from a type". 

    All these terms aside, I agree it's a rather unique situation and the most important point would be clarity for future workers.  I think a key question is to establish whether the original author knew of, and used the mould in the course of describing the species. 
    Lynn 

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