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Journal of Paleontology

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A Replacement Name for Psammorhynchus Grande & Hilton, 2006 (Actinopterygii, Acipenseriformes, Acipenseridae)

¹ Division of Collections and Research, The Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605, <lgrande@fieldmuseum.org>
² Department of Fisheries Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062, <ehilton@vims.edu>

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IN 2006, we (Grande & Hilton, 2006) described a well-preserved fossil sturgeon (Acipenseridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Montana and proposed the name Psammorhynchus longipinnis Grande & Hilton for the new species. Through accidental discovery of an on-line taxonomic database of flatworms (Tyler et al., 2006) and subsequent investigation, we recently discovered that the genus-group name is preoccupied by Psammorhynchus Meixner, 1938 in Platyhelminthes ("Turbellaria"). Therefore, under Article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999), a replacement name is required for the junior . . . [Full Text of this Article]