Bakewellia or Bakevellia?
Bakevellia is rather common on text-books and papers on the Permian bivalve fossils, but the original spelling is said to be Bakewellia、King, 1848 (Zoological Nomenclator, vol. 1: 385).
King (1850) described some species under the genus Bakevellia and noted its etymology as follows:
Named after the late Mr. Bakewell; as his instructive 'Introduction to Geology' was the first work on the subject I read.
Miller (1877: 185) enumelated Bakevellia King, 1848 in his catalogue. This is possibly miss-spelling or followed after King (1850).
It is unclear why King (1850) changed the name Bakewellia King, 1848 into Bakevellia.
If Bakewellia King, 1848 is unavailable, Bakevellia King, 1850 [not 1848] will be a valid name.
I should be most grateful if someone could kindly provide me an essential page of King (1848) as a pdf-file!
References
King, William, 1848. A catalogue of the organic remains of the Permien [sic] rocks of Northumberland and Durham. i-iv, 16 pp., printed for and published by the author, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (not consulted)
King, William, 1850. A monograph of the Permian fossils of England. 258 pp., 28 pls., Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain), London. (available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/199499#page/9/mode/1up)
Miller, Samuel Almond, 1877. The American Paleozoic fossils: a catalogue of the genera and species, with names of authors, dates, places of publication, groups of rock in which found, and the etymology and signification of the words, and an introduction devoted to the stratigraphical geology of the Palæozoic rocks. 334 pp., published by the author, Cincinnati, Ohio.
