Historical type collections of fossil corallinales and sporolithales (rhodophyta) in the Dip.Te.Ris.

This book provides an analysis of 12 historical collections of fossil coralline algae (Rhodophyta) housed in the Dip.Te.Ris. of the Genova University, Italy. The material was originally collected by M. Airoldi, S. Conti and V.I. Mastrorilli between the thirties and the seventies in Cenozoic outcrops of Northern Italy, Somalia, Canary Islands, Vienna Basin and in the Pleistocene of Somalia and Dahlac Islands. The collections represent almost forty years of the Italian scientific research on fossil calcareous red algae, and contain the type material of 96 species. Some of them have been already revised, other are in crucial need of revision, by means of modern techniques and the current taxonomic approach.