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Calcareous nannofossils from the Paleogene
equatorial Pacific (IODP Expedition 320 Sites
U1331-1334) P. R. Bown, T. Dunkley Jones
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Two new Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils
from SE Spain and Tunisia R. Aguado
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Middle Miocene Carbonate Crash in the Niger
Delta: Evidence from Calcareous Nannofossils
L. S. Fadiya, M. B. Salami
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A transitional Emiliania huxleyi morphotype
J. Henderiks, A. Winter
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Two new heterococcoliths from the Albian–
Cenomanian, Austral Basin, Patagonia,
Argentina
J. P. Pérez Panera
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The Farinacci Catalogue of Calcareous
Nannofossils – CD-ROM version
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The Farinacci Catalogue of Calcareous Nannofossils –
CD-ROM version
We are pleased to include with this issue of the Journal of
Nannoplankton Research a CD-ROM containing a complete copy of the Catalogue of Calcareous Nannofossils,
as originally compiled by Prof. Anna Farinacci of Rome
University.
Production of the original catalogue
The original descriptions of most calcareous nannofossils
are published in numerous different journals, conference
proceedings volumes, ocean drilling reports and books,
hence, they can be difficult to access. Taking inspiration
from the Micropaleontology Project (http://www.micropress.org/history.html) and its illustrated catalogue of the
Foraminifera, Prof. Anna Farinacci set about addressing
this, by compiling these descriptions into a standard format and republishing them in a succession of loose-leafed
volumes from 1969 to 1989. These 13 volumes were published by Edizione Tecnoscienze and distributed to subscribers around the world.
The data on each taxon is given on a separate sheet,
or sheets, and is re-organised into the following fields:
Taxon Citation; Illustrations; Description; Remarks; Type
Level; Type Locality; Depository; Author; Reference.
The volumes were produced as the original descriptions/
publications became available, and when time was available for the project. Consequently, each volume included an ad hoc mix of publications, but, since they were
produced loose-leafed, it was possible to re-arrange the
volumes into a consistent (alphabetical) order. This catalogue was widely used by nannofossil workers, especially
biostratigraphers needing to keep abreast of the rapidly
proliferating list of new taxa, their inevitable synonyms
and their stratigraphic contexts, from regions of the globe
that were opening up to hydrocarbon exploration and the
Deep Sea Drilling Project. Pressure on Prof. Farinacci’s
time meant that the catalogue was not maintained after
1989 (despite her receiving help from Dr. Andrea Fiorentino with the last volume), and the shift towards digital
publishing means it would not be cost-effective to restart
it now. Nonetheless, it is an invaluable source of data, and
the INA has long been interested both in making it more
widely available and incorporating it in new initiatives,
notably the Nannotax website (http://nannotax.org/),
which, when completed, will effectively fill the gap.
Copyright transfer to INA and production of this digital version
In 2008-2009, discussions were held between Anna Farinacci, Simonetta Monechi, Giuliana Villa and Paul Bown,
facilitated by various colleagues in Italy. As a result, Prof.
Farinacci generously transferred copyright to the INA.
Subsequently, Jackie Lees got funding (from Shell via
Shirley van Heck) and had the UCL copy of the catalogue
scanned. The individual page-files were then tagged with
the species names by Debbie Pledge, a volunteer at the
Natural History Museum, working with Jeremy Young.
Finally, iView was used to rename the files, using the tags.
This version is included on the CD-ROM.
How to use the CD-ROM
The CD-ROM is an unsophisticated product, consisting of
some 5500 individual files, each being a jpeg copy of one
side of one sheet from the catalogue. The key to its use is
that the file names are the taxa, so with current operating
systems, the relevant pages can rapidly found. Basically,
you just need to open a new Explorer/Finder window,
navigate to the catalogue and then use the search-box in
the top right of the window to search for a taxon. In Mac
OS X, you may need to select the options to search in the
catalogue folder and to search by file name; in Windows
these are the default options. When searching, you need to
remember that generic combinations and specific epithet
endings may have changed. So, for example, a search for
Biscutum dubium will not find anything but a search for
‘dubi’ will find the original description of the species as
Palaeopontosphaera dubia.
Caveats and cautions
We have found that the catalogue is a very useful tool and
we believe that many INA members will find it invaluable to have a readily accessible digital copy. However,
it does have a specific character, which influences how it
should be used. In particular, it is simply a compilation of
original descriptions, not an encyclopaedia of nannofossil taxonomy, and it should be used as such. Particular
limitations are:
• Taxa are listed in the original combination (e.g. Coccosphaera pelagica), rather than in the modern combination (e.g. Coccolithus pelagicus) - species name
endings may have changed accordingly, and spellings
may have been corrected.
• The descriptions have not been supplemented by subsequent illustrations or observations, and often the
modern species concept would be rather different from
the original author’s (although, of course, the holotype
would have to fall within the modern species concept).
• Especially in some of the older papers, rather idiosyncratic taxonomic concepts are used and descriptions
may be very sparse.
• Many taxa included in the catalogue are well-known to
be junior synonyms of other taxa.
• Many important taxa are not included in the catalogue,
and it does not include any taxa described since 1988.
• The ranges of all the taxa are likely to have been
extended since their first description.
So, it definitely should not be used as an identification
manual!
Finally, the CD ROM is copyright protected to the
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INA. You may not post it on a website, make copies other
than for your own use, or otherwise distribute it. Also,
note that all the files will be uploaded to the INA-supported Nannotax website during this year, and we recommend
that this should be your primary taxonomic reference.
Jeremy R. Young, Jacqueline A. Lees, Paul R. Bown
University College London
Biography of Prof. Anna Farinacci
Anna Farinacci was one of the pioneers of nannofossil
study in Italy, as well as making a unique contribution
to the documentation of the science through compilation
of the famous Farinacci Catalogue. She graduated in
Natural Sciences from Rome, with a dissertation on the
sedimentary successions of the Central Apennines, published in 1959, then going on to work on the Mesozoic
geology of Turkey and Albania. Through the early 1960s,
she was associated with the Geological Survey of Italy,
carrying out integrated fieldwork and micropalaeontological analyses, leading to the establishment of a Micropalaeontology Laboratory in Rome. In addition to studies
on foraminifera and calcareous algae, she began to take
an interest in the calcareous nannofacies of Jurassic sediments, and in 1964 published a paper on SEM analyses of
nannoconids and coccolithophores of the Umbria-Marche
Maiolica and Scaglia Formations.
Publication of the Catalogue of Calcareous Nannofossils started in 1969, inspired by the Ellis & Messina
catalogues of microfossils. However, whilst the Ellis &
Messina operation was, at least sporadically, governmentsupported and employed up to 82 people (http://www.micropress.org/history.html), this was largely a solo labour
of love. With about 250 pages in each volume, publication
of the 13 catalogues (the last one in 1989, in cooperation
with Andrea Fiorentino) involved a massive commitment
of time, especially given the difficulty of obtaining the
original papers in those pre-digital years.
In another major contribution, Anna organised the 2nd
Planktonic Conference in Rome in 1970, and published
the related proceedings. The second volume of these proceedings was mainly devoted to calcareous nannofossils
and included the results of the “Round table on calcareous
nannoplankton”, a prelude to the setting up of the INA.
There were 20 participants at this seminal workshop,
which approved several propositions related to the identification of species and biostratigraphic analysis. Furthermore, the working group produced a document describing coccolith terminology and a list of nannoplankton
workers in the world, subdivided by country and different
stratigraphic fields.
From the early 1980s, Anna was responsible for the organisation of the CNR (National Research Council) working group “Stratigraphic Palaeontology and Evolution”
and at the same time drew up and coordinated the reports
which first appeared in the Quaderni and subsequently in
Paleopelagos, a journal which Anna was largely responsible for, for 10 years, up to her retirement in 1997. Anna
is still in Rome, enjoying her retirement.
Selected references
Farinacci, A. 1959. Le microbiofacies giurassiche dei
Monti Martani. Pubbl. Istituto di Geologia e Paleontologia, Univ. Roma.
Farinacci, A. 1962. Nuovo genere di Verneuilinidae (Foraminifera), marker di zona del Senoniano Inferiore.
Geologica Romana, 1: 5-10.
Farinacci, A. 1964. Microrganismi dei calcari “Maiolica”
e “Scaglia” osservati al microscopio elettronico (nannoconi e coccolithophoridi). Bollettino della Società
Paleontologica Italiana, 3(2): 172-181.
Farinacci, A. 1965. I foraminiferi di un livello marnoso
dei Calcari Diasprigni del Malm (Monti Martani,
Umbria). Geologica Romana, 4: 229-258.
Farinacci, A. 1967. La serie Giurassico Neocomiana di Monte Lacerone (Sabina). Nuove vedute
sull’interpretazione paleogeografica delle aree di facies
umbro-marchigiana. Geologica Romana, 6: 421-479.
Farinacci, A. 1968. La tessitura della micrite nel calcare
“Corniola” del Lias medio. Accademia Nazionale dei
Lincei, Rendiconti, 44: 68-73.
Farinacci, A. 1969. Characteristics of micrite grains in the
Appennines. Geologica Romana, 8: 47-70.
Farinacci, A. 1969. The smallest planktonic calcareous
forms of Jurassic micrites. In: P. Brönnimann & H.
Renz (Eds). Proceedings of the First International
Conference on Planktonic Microfossils, 2: 224-228.
Farinacci, A. 1985. Antalyna korayi n.gen. n.sp. in the
phyletic lineage of the Nazzazatidae (Foraminifera).
Revue de Micropaléontologie, 28(2): 103-108.
Farinacci, A. 1991. Emendation of Vidalina Schlumberger
and the new genus Agerina (Foraminifera). Paleopelagos, 1: 5-16.
Chiocchini, M., Farinacci, A., Mancinelli, A., Molinari,
V. & Potetti, M. 1994. Biostratigrafia a Foraminiferi,
dasicladali e calpionelle delle successioni carbonati
che Mesozoiche dell’Appennino centrale (Italia).
Studi Geologici Camerti, Vol. Spec.
Farinacci, A. & Yeniay, G. 1994. Tekkeina anatoliensis
n.gen. n.sp., a new foraminifer from Susuz Dağ, Western Taurus, Turkey. Palaeopelagos, 4: 47-59.
Farinacci, A. 1996. Depositional discontinuity and biosequence concept. Examples from Mesozoic Western
Tethys. Palaeopelagos, 6: 211-227.
Simonetta Monechi
Università degli Studi di Firenze
April, 2012
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