Geologicheskii Vestnik

The article is devoted to the problem of describing chitinozoans in Russian language. Comparison of domestic paleontological descriptions of different years showed the absence of a single Russian-language terminology for the morphological elements of Chitinozoa – an important biostratigraphic group in the Ordovician and Silurian. Most of the terms describing chitinozoans in Russian do not have established variants, which leads to different understanding of the elements and subjective distortions in the description of the morphological structure. In the summary work [Paris et al, 1999] an English-language terminology is published, on the basis of which an analysis of existing descriptions of chitinozoans by Russian-speaking paleontologists is carried out and recommendations are proposed for the use of Russian-language terminology to describe the morphological features of chitinozoans.

Chitinozoa, description, Russian language, terminology, morphology

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