Reassessment of the type collections of Maslov’s species of Corallinales (Rhodophyta). I. species originally attributed to Lithophyllum and Melobesia
Journal: Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
Year: 2021

This paper is part of a wider project for reassessing Maslov’s original collection of fossil calcareous algae with a modern taxonomic approach. Based on this collection, currently housed in the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences of Moscow, Maslov described many taxa of calcareous algae of diverse ages from the former USSR in two monographs and several other papers from 1929 to 1973. As in other taxonomic publications from those decades, many of Maslov’s new species of fossil