DOI: 10.1002/tax.13029 ISSN:
Fossil or non‐fossil? A best‐practice guide for archaeobotanical taxa
Diego Rivera, P. Pablo Ferrer‐Gallego, Concepción Obón, Francisco Alcaraz, Javier Valera, Nikolay P. Goncharov, Emilio Laguna, Mordechai Kislev- Plant Science
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Abstract
Can archaeobotanical material be treated as a nomenclatural type of a fossil taxon? Here we show that archaeobotanical taxa should be named according to the rules for non‐fossil taxa. Examples of archaeobotanical taxa are summarized and discussed. A best‐practice guide for the correct treatment of archaeological plant remains as the type of a new name is presented.