Leonard Frank Spath

Leonard Frank Spath (1882–1957), British paleomalacologist.

Taxon names authored

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27 taxon names authored by Leonard Frank Spath

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1913

Spath, L.F. 1913. On Jurassic ammonites from Jebel Zaghuan (Tunisia). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 69, 540-580, pls. 52, 53.

1914

Spath, L.F. 1914. On the development of Tragophylloceras loscombi (J. Sowerby). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 70, 336-362, pls. 48–50.

1915

Spath, L.F. 1915. On Schlotheimia Greenoughi, J. Sowerby sp. Geological Magazine (6), 2, 97-102,. pl. 4.

1919

Spath, L.F. 1919. Notes on ammonites. Geological Magazine London, 56: 27–35.

1920

Spath, L.F. 1920. The ammonite siphuncle. Geological Magazine 57: 142–144.
Spath, L.F. 1920. On Jurassic ammonites from East Africa, collected by Prof. J.W. Gregory. Geological Magazine 57, 311-320, pl. 5; 351–362.
Spath, L.F. 1920. On a new ammonite genus (Dayiceras) from the Lias of Charmouth. Geological Magazine 57, 538-543, pl. 15.

1921

Spath, L.F. 1921. On ammonites from Spitzbergen. Geological Magazine 58: 297–305, 347–356. Reference page.
Spath, L.F. 1921. On Cretaceous Cephalopoda from Zululand. Annals of the South African Museum 12: 217–321. BHL Reference page.
Spath, L.F. 1921. On Upper Cretaceous Ammonoidea from Pondoland. Annals of the Durban Museum 3(2): 39–57. BHL Reference page.

1922

Spath, L.F. 1922. On Lower Lias ammonites from Skye. Geological Magazine 59: 170–176.
Spath, L.F. 1922. On the Liassic succession of Pabay, Inner Hebrides. Geological Magazine 59: 548–551.
Spath, L.F. 1922. On the Senonian ammonite fauna of Pondoland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 10, 113-147, pls. 5–9.
Spath, L.F. 1922. On Cretaceous Ammonoidea from Angola, collected by Prof. J.W. Gregory, D.Sc, F.R.S. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 53(1), 91-160, pls. 1–4.
Spath, L.F. 1922. Upper Lias successions near Ilminster, Somerset. In Spath, Pringle, Templeman and Buckman, ‘The Upper Lias Succession'. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 78: 449–450.

1923

Spath, L.F. 1923. Appendix on Ammonites from New Zealand. In: Trechmann, C.T., The Jurassic Rocks of New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 79(3): 286-308. Reference page.
Spath, L.F. 1923. Correlation of the Ibex and Jamesoni zones of the Lower Lias. Geological Magazine 60, 6- 11.
Spath, L.F. 1923. Excursion to Folkestone. With notes on the zones of the Gault. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 34: 70–76.
Spath, L.F. 1923. On the ammonite horizons of the Gault and contiguous deposits. Appendix 2 in Summary of Progress for 1922, Geol. Surv. U.K. 139–149.
Spath, L.F. 1923–1943. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Gault. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 787 pp.
Spath, L.F. 1923. The ammonites of the Shales-with-Beef. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 79: 66–88.

1924

Spath, L.F., 1924. On the Ammonites of the Speeton clay and the subdivisions of the Neocomian. Geological Magazine 61(716): 73–89. PDF Reference page.
Spath, L.F. 1924. On the Blake collection of ammonites from Kachh, India. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India: Palaeontologia Indica n.s. 9(1): 1–29. Internet Archive Reference page.
Spath, L.F. 1924. The ammonites of the Blue Lias. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 35: 186–211. DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(24)80033-0
Spath, L.F. 1924. On a new ammonite (Engonoceras iris sp.n.) from the Gault of Folkestone. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9), 14: 504–508.
Spath, L.F. 1924. New Speeton ammonites. The Naturalist pp. 173–174.

1925

Spath, L.F. 1925. Jurassic Cephalopoda from Madagascar. Bulletins of American paleontology 2(44), 1-30, pl. 1.
Spath, L.F. 1925. On Senonian Ammonoidea from Jamaica. Geological Magazine London, 62: 28–32.
Spath, L.F. 1925. Notes on Yorkshire Ammonites. Pt. 1. On the Genus Oxynoticeras Hyatt. The Naturalist 1925: 107–112
Spath, L.F. 1925. Notes on Yorkshire Ammonites. Pt. 2. On a New Deroceratid. The Naturalist 1925: 137–141
Spath, L.F. 1925. Notes on Yorkshire Ammonites. Pt. 3. On the 'Armatus Zone'. The Naturalist 1925: 167–172
Spath, L.F. 1925. Notes on Yorkshire Ammonites. Pt. 4. On Some Schlotheimidae. The Naturalist 1925: 201–206.
Spath, L.F. 1925. Notes on Yorkshire ammonites. Pt. 5. Arietites, Asteroceras and allied genera. The Naturalist 1925: 263–269.
Spath, L.F. 1925. Notes on Yorkshire ammonites. Pt. 6. On Ammonites planicosta, J. Sowerby. The Naturalist 1925: 299–306.
Spath, L.F. 1925. Notes on Yorkshire ammonites. Pt. 7. On Ammonites semicostatus, Young and Bird. The Naturalist 1925: 327–331.
Spath, L.F. 1925. Notes on Yorkshire ammonites. Pt. 8. More Lower Liassic forms. The Naturalist 1925: 359–364.
Spath, L.F. 1925. Notes on the ammonites of the Lower Greensand and Gault, Folkestone and neighbourhood. In J.W. Walton, Folkestone and country around, 31–36.
Spath, L.F. 1925. On Upper Albian Ammonoidea from Portuguese East Africa: with an appendix on Upper Cretaceous ammonites from Maputoland. Annals of the Transvaal Museum II, 179-200, pls. 28–37.
Spath, L.F. 1925. Ammonites and Aptychi. In The Collection of fossils and rocks from Somaliland. Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow). Geological Department Monograph, part VII, pp. 111–164.
Spath, L.F. 1925. Sur quelques ammonites du Gault, nominées par P. Reynès. Annales du Musée d'histoire naturelle de Marseille 20, 97-106, pl. 4.

1926

Spath, L.F. 1926. On New Ammonites from the English Chalk. Geological Magazine 63(2): 77–83. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756800083710 Reference page.
Spath, L.F. 1926. Notes on Yorkshire Ammonites. Pt. 8. More Lower Liassic forms (contd.). The Naturalist 1926: 45-49, 137–140, 169–171.
Spath, L.F. 1926. Notes on Yorkshire Ammonites. Pt. 9. On recent criticisms. The Naturalist 1926: 265–268.
Spath, L.F. 1926. Notes on Yorkshire Ammonites. Pt. 10. On some post-Liassic ammonites and a new species of Bonarellia. The Naturalist 1926: 321–326.
Spath, L.F. 1926. On the zones of the Cenomanian and the uppermost Albian. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 37(4): 420–432.
Spath, L.F. 1926. Note on two ammonites from the Gin Gin Chalk. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 12: 53–55.
Spath, L.F. 1926. Ammonites from the Black Marl of Black Ven and Stonebarrow. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 82, 165-179, pls. 9–11.

1927

Spath, L.F. 1927. Revision of the Jurassic cephalopod fauna of Kachh (Cutch). Part 1. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India: Palaeontologia Indica n.s. 9(2): 1–71. Reference page.
Spath, L.F. 1927. On Eotriassic ammonites from East Greenland. Geological Magazine 64: 474–475.
Spath, L.F. 1927. On the classification of the Tertiary Nautili. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9), 20: 424–428.

1928

Spath, L.F. 1928. The Albian Ammonoidea of Nigeria. Appendix to The Nigerian Coalfield. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Nigeria 12: 51–54.
Spath, L.F. 1928. The ammonites from the Belemnite Marls. (In Lang, Spath, Cox and Wood, ‘The Belemnite Marls of Charmouth; a series in the Lias of the Dorset Coast'.) Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 84, 222-232, pls. 16, 17.
Spath, L.F. 1928. The recent landslide at Windy Corner, above Rocker End in the Isle of Wight. Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, 1928-1929: 2–3.

1929

Spath, L.F. 1929. Corrections of cephalopod nomenclature. The Naturalist [54]1929: 269–271. BHL Reference page.
Spath, L.F. 1929. Ammonites williamsoni Phillips, and some allied forms. The Naturalist 293–298. BHL

1930

Spath, L.F. 1930. The Jurassic ammonite faunas of the neighbourhood of Mombasa. Monographs of the Geological Department of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University. 4, 13-71, pls. 1–8.
Spath, L.F. 1930. The Eotriassic invertebrate fauna of East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 83, 90 pp, 12 pls.
Spath, L.F. 1930. On the Cephalopoda of the Uitenhage Beds. Annals of the South African Museum 28, 131-157, pls. 13–15.
Spath, L.F. 1930. On some Ammonoidea from the Lower Greensand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 5, 417-464, pls. 14–17.
Spath, L.F. 1930. The fossil fauna of the Samana Range and some neighbouring areas. The Lower Cretaceous Ammonoidea: With notes on Albian Cephalopoda from Hazara. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica N.S. 15(5), 50-66, pls. 8–9.

1931

Spath, L.F. 1931. On the contemporaneity of certain ammonite beds in England and France. Geological Magazine 68: 182–186.

1932

Spath, L.F. 1932. The invertebrate faunas of the Bathonian-Callovian deposits of Jameson Land (East Greenland). Meddelelser om Grønland 87(7), 158 pp. 26 pls.

1933

Spath, L.F. 1933. The evolution of the Cephalopoda. Biological Reviews 8: 418–462.

1934

Spath, L.F. 1934. Jurassic and Cretaceous Cephalopoda. In Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, 2, 205-228, pls. 24–25.
Spath, L.F. 1934. Catalogue of the fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natual History). Pt. 4: The Ammonoidea of the Trias. Pp. xvi, 531, 18 pls.
Spath, L.F. 1934. The Jurassic and Cretaceous ammonites and belemnites of the Attock district. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica 20(4), 44 pp, 6 pls.

1935

Spath, L.F. 1935. On the age of certain species of Trigonia from the Jurassic rocks of Kachh (Cutch). Geological Magazine 72: 184–189.
Spath, L.F. 1935. Field meeting at Folkestone, Kent. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 46: 429–431.
Spath, L.F. 1935. Additions to the Eotriassic invertebrate fauna of East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 98(2), 115 pp, 23 pls.
Spath, L.F. 1935. The upper Jurassic invertebrate faunas of Cape Leslie, Milneland. I. Oxfordian and Lower Kimmeridgian. Meddelelser om Grønland 99(2), 82 pp, 15 pls.
Spath, L.F. 1935. On a Turonian ammonite (Hamites daviesi) from Ramri Island, Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 68, 414-416, pl. 32.
Spath, L.F. 1935. On colour markings in ammonites. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10), 15, 395-398, pl. 18.

1936

Spath, L.F. 1936. So-called Salterella from the Cambrian of Australia. Geological Magazine 73: 433–440.
Spath, L.F. 1936. The Upper Jurassic invertebrate faunas of Cape Leslie, Milneland. II. Upper Kimmeridgian and Portlandian. Meddelelser om Grønland 99(3), 180 pp, 50 pls.
Spath, L.F. 1936. The phylogeny of the Cephalopoda. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 18, 156-181, pl. 9.
Spath, L.F. 1936. The ammonites of the Green Ammonite Beds of Dorset. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 92, 438-455, pl. 33.
Spath, L.F. 1936. On a new ammonite genus (Sphenarpites) from the Lias of Baluchistan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 17: 641–645.
Spath, L.F. 1936. On Bajocian ammonites and belemnites from Eastern Persia (Iran). Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica N.S. 22, Mem. no. 3, 21 pp, 1 pl.

1937

Spath, L.F. 1937. The nomenclature of some Lower Chalk ammonites. Geological Magazine 74: 277–281.
Spath, L.F. 1937. The Canadian ammonite genus Gastroplites in the English Gault. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10), 19: 257–260.
Spath, L.F. 1937. Note on the phylogeny of fossil Cephalopoda. Biological Reviews 12: 154–155.
Spath, L.F. 1937. Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Fortschritte der Geologie und Palaeontologie 1: 187–196.

1938

Spath, L.F. 1938. Problems of ammonite nomenclature. 1. The type of the ammonite genus Mortoniceras, Meek. Geological Magazine 75: 234–235.
Spath, L.F. 1938. Problems of ammonite nomenclature. 2. Schlotheim's types of Ammonites capricornus. Geological Magazine 75: 362–366.
Spath, L.F. 1938. Problems of ammonite nomenclature. 3. On Ammonites varians J. Sowerby. Geological Magazine 75: 543–547.
Spath, L.F. 1938. A catalogue of the ammonites of the Liassic family Liparoceratidae. British Museum of Natural History, London; 191 pp.

1939

Spath, L.F. 1939. Problems of ammonite nomenclature. 4. The vicissitudes of the genus Rhacophyllites Zittel. Geological Magazine 76: 77–81.
Spath, L.F. 1939. On some Tithonian Ammonites from the Northern Range of Trinidad, B.W.I. Geological Magazine 76: 187–189.
Spath, L.F. 1939. Problems of ammonite nomenclature. 5. On Acanthoplites jacobi Collet, and the Jacobi Zone of the Folkestone Sands. Geological Magazine 76: 284–287.
Spath, L.F. 1939. Problems of ammonite nomenclature. 6. The genus Pachydiscus Zittel. Geological Magazine 76: 293–296.
Spath, L.F. 1939. Problems of ammonite nomenclature. 7. The genera Paraphylloceras and Neophylloceras Shimizu. Geological Magazine 76: 451–454.
Spath, L.F. 1939. On Jurassic Ammonites from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25, 123-135, pls. 1, 2.
Spath, L.F. 1939. The ammonites of the Upper Oxford Clay of Warboys, Hunts. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain 1, 82-98, pls. 6, 7.
Spath, L.F. 1939. On a new belemnoid (Conoteuthis renniei) from the Aptian of the colony of Mozambique. Boletim - Serviços de geologia e minas. Série de geologia e minas, memórias e comunicações 2: 1–16.
Spath, L.F. 1939. The Cephalopoda of the Neocomian Belemnite beds of the Salt Range. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica N.S. 25, Mem. no. 1. Pp. iii, 154, 25 pls.
Spath, L.F. 1939. Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Fortschritte der Geologie und Palaeontologie 2: 203–210.

1940

Spath, L.F. 1940. On Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Ammonoidea from Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 26 (1939–1940): 41–57.

1941

Spath, L.F. 1941. On the boundary between the Upper and Lower Cretaceous. Geological Magazine 78: 309–315.

1942

Spath, L.F. 1942. The ammonite zones of the Lias. Geological Magazine 79: 264–268.

1943

Spath, L.F. 1943. Problems of ammonite nomenclature. 8. On Ammonites cordatus and Amm. serratus J. Sowerby. Geological Magazine 80: 111–117.

1944

Spath, L.F. 1944. Problems of ammonite nomenclature. 9. The genus Stephanoceras, Waagen, and some allied genera. Geological Magazine 81: 230–234.

1945

Spath, L.F. 1945. Problems of ammonite nomenclature. 10. The naming of pathological specimens. Geological Magazine 82: 251–255.

1946

Spath, L.F. 1946. Preliminary notes on the Cretaceous ammonite faunas of East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 132(4): 1–12.
Spath, L.F. 1946. The type of the genus Ammonites. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11) 12: 490–497.

1947

Spath, L.F. 1947. Additional observations on the invertebrates (chiefly ammonites) of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 132(3), 70 pp, 5 pls.

1949

Spath, L.F. 1949. On a collection of Divesian (Mesoxfordian) ammonites from Franconia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12), 2: 422–431.

1950

Spath, L.F. 1950. A new Tithonian ammonoid fauna from Kurdistan, northern Iraq. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 1: 95-137.
Spath, L.F. 1950. The study of ammonites in thin, median sections. Geological Magazine 87: 77–84.

1951

Spath, L.F. 1951. Preliminary notice on some Upper Cretaceous ammonite faunas from Angola. Comunicações dos Serviços Geológicos de Portugal 32: 123–130.
Spath, L.F. 1951. Catalogue of the fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part 5, The Ammonoidea of the Trias (11). London, 228 pp.

1952

Spath, L.F. 1952. Additional observations on the invertebrates (chiefly ammonites) of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of East Greenland. II. Some Infra-Valanginian ammonites from Lindemans Fjord, Wollaston Forland. Meddelelser om Grønland 133(4), 40 pp, 4 pls.

1953

Spath, L.F. 1953. The Upper Cretaceous Cephalopod Fauna of Graham-Land. Falkland islands dependencies Survey Scientific Reports 3: 1–60.

1956

Spath, L.F. 1956. The Liassic ammonite faunas of Stowell Park Borehole. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain 11, 140-164, pls. 9, 10.

References

Cox, L.R. 1957. Leonard Frank Spath 1882-1957. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3: 217–226. DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.1957.0015