Dictyoconinae Schubert, 1912

SCHLAGINTWEIT, FELIX, 2021, Agglutinated Conical Foraminifera (Orbitolinidae, Coskinolinidae) From The Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Of Greece, With Description Of Paracoskinolina Klokovaensis N. Sp., Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 17 (2), pp. 83-94 : 84-85

Subfamily Dictyoconinae Schubert, 1912

Remarks: Schubert (1912, p. 207) introduced the name Dictyoconinae for a “group” (Gruppe) of agglutinated foraminifers comprising the five genera: Lituonella

Schlumberger in Schlumberger and Douvillé, 1905, Coskinolina Stache, 1875 , Chapmania Silvestri, 1904 , the eponymous Dictyoconus Blanckenhorn, 1900 , and Lituola Lamarck, 1804 , and suggested that this “row” of taxa represented a stratigraphic succession. With reservation, Schubert (1912) added Conulites Carter, 1861 and Conulina d’Orbigny, 1831 . Without going into details about the taxonomic status of these genera, only Dictyoconus is left as a member of this “group”. Others are partly junior synonyms of other genera (e.g. Lituonella and Coskinolina ), and belong to other families and orders (e.g. Chapmanina ). Obviously, the work of Schubert (1912), written in German, was overlooked by Moullade (1965) when he established the new subfamily Dictyconinae . Shortly afterwards, the priority of the name introduced by Schubert (1912) was recognized by Moullade (1966, p. 35). Although both, Schubert (1912) and Moullade (1965) are included in the reference list of Loeblich and Tappan (1987), confusingly, they choose to retain the name Dictyoconinae Moullade, 1965. While some workers correctly used Schubert as author of the subfamily (e.g. Arnaud-Vanneau, 1976; Decrouez and Moullade, 1974), many have not questioned Loeblich and Tappan (1987) and follow their incorrect taxonomy (e.g. Mancinelli and Chiocchini, 2006; Vecchio and Hottinger, 2007; Clavel in Granier et al., 2013; Kaminski, 2014; Vicedo et al., 2014; Schlagintweit et al., 2016; Serra-Kiel et al., 2016; Villalonga et al., 2019).