Hi Jeremy. The paper by Aguado et al., was accepted for publication 18-10-1999 and was published as part of the volume 21, first issue of 2000, in Cretaceous Research (see snapshot 1). The online documentation (see snapshots 2 and 3) says that this was published in February 2000 (although probably the paper was available online prior to this date). Cretaceous Research is a reputed journal, and I have no reason to question these data.

Hi all,

Recently, one of my colleagues gave me an indication regarding the validity of the Calcicalathina erbae/praeoblongata specific names.

As currently indicated in the nannotax page, the name erbae takes precedence over praeoblongata (synonym), as the first of them was published earlier. The apparent publication dates of C. erbae and C. praeoblongata were respectively 1998 and 2000. However, the original description of C. erbae was published in a “special volume” of the journal Géologie Méditérranéenne, edited by M. Moullade et al., dedicated to the Bedoulian. Although this volume was dated 1998, this date only corresponds to the “seriation” of the journal, while the volume was effectively published (and accessible) in the year 2000 (legal deposit number “2ème trimestre 2000”). The paper by Aguado et al. describing C. praeoblongata appeared in February 2000, and then, the original description of C. praeoblongata was “effectively published” before that of C. erbae (synonym).