Abstract:Chitinozoans have been known to science for nearly a century. Due to their biostratigraphic utility, chitinozoans were intensively studied from the 1960s to the 1980s, and they have an important place in Ordovician stratigraphy nowadays, alongside graptolites and conodonts. However, identifying chitinozoans is often complicated due to poorly illustrated and documented type specimens. During the last decades, descriptions of new species have decreased significantly, whereas open nomenclature has been adopted wi… Show more
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