Hi does anyone have the exact references (plate, page,...) for Murex
crispus and Murex fraterculus both eocene fossils. I know they are
described in Cossmann, M. & Pissarro, G. (1907-1913) Iconographie complète
des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. 2: Scaphopodes,
Gastropodes, Brachiopodes, Céphalopodes & Supplément. Paris
This information is impossible to find on the internet.
I've got many offers to buy a copy on CD, the homemade stuff by collectors
and even some scientists, but I'm not planning to buy this work only to
have these two references? I'm not a scientific researcher or fieldworker
so my options to get a copy of the descriptions in one of the museums
having this book are limited (read non-existant) .
I would also like to know your opinion about the way museums and libraries
protect willingly the spreading of information towards non-scientists. In
most of these institutes you dont get far if you're not attached to a
university or have a fieldworker status of a museum (sometimes very easily
obtained by some shelldealers)and no I dont have to see the actual work as
most museums have digitalized copies.
Sorry to be a bit grumpy but this is the way things are and are a daily
frustration to serious collectors
Eddy Wilmet

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