Preface

[From Preface to Özcan et. al. (2022), Atlas of the Tethyan orthophragmines] (...) The Atlas is the compendium of an enormous work by E. Özcan and his co-workers. It manages to present a difficult subject in a way that even a non-specialist can understand the basics of species or subspecies identification, whereas a specialist will be able to admire the fine nuances in novel systematic details, interpretations, and data. The Atlas provides succinct and precise diagnoses of all the species, and all subspecies are biometrically characterized. For the first time, high-quality photographs illustrate a large number of taxa belonging to five genera of Neo-Tethyan orthophragmines, with precise and standardized enlargement scales, both in equatorial and axial sections. This will be an invaluable step forward for any rock thin section analysis in which the identification of orthophragmines in axial or oblique sections has been generally difficult or neglected or has led to spurious results. The quality of the illustrated material is excellent, based on a large number of painstakingly sectioned specimens and unpublished material. (...)