Dear Tilo,
That title sounds quite correct.
Thanks,
Harry
At 05:15 PM 1/4/2007, you wrote:
>Harry, correct me if I'm wrong. I suppose this is the publication you have
>been talking about:
>
>Jonathan Robert Hendricks: Fossil record, evolutionary history, and
>paleobiology of Plio-Pleistocene Conus from the southeastern United States
>
>Paperback: 376 pages
>Publisher: ProQuest / UMI (March 17, 2006)
>Language: English
>ISBN-10: 054235148X
>ISBN-13: 978-0542351488
>
>http://www.amazon.com/evolutionary-history-paleobiology-Plio-Pleistocene-southeastern/dp/054235148X/sr=11-1/qid=1167948591/ref=sr_11_1/102-9399879-7425741
>
>Hope this helps,
>Tilo
>
>
>At 22:30 04.01.2007, you wrote:
>
>>Dear Marien,
>>
>>Jon is now at the University of Kansas, USA. I'll send you his email
>>address under separate cover.
>>
>>BTW, I meant to say TWO million years ago; it is doubtful that Conus
>>adversarius, or for that matter, the presently extinct members rich fossil
>>faunas we associate with the Caloosahatchee Marl and Pinecrest Beds of
>>Florida, persisted until 1,000,000 years ago.
>>
>>Harry
>>
>>
>>At 02:55 PM 1/4/2007, you wrote:
>>>Harry,
>>>
>>>is this dissertation available, somewhere?
>>>
>>>
>>>Marien
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>Harry G. Lee
>>>To: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
>>>Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:30 PM
>>>Subject: Re: Shells Passion / sinistral Conus species?
>>>Dear John,
>>>Recently, a grad student at Cornell/Paleontological Research Institution
>>>(PRI), Jon Hendricks received his PhD after defending his dissertation on
>>>Cenozoic Conus in the American Southeast. A principal topic in that work
>>>was the stratigraphy, taxonomy, and inferred biology of Conus adversarius
>>>Conrad, 1840. Among Jon's conclusions were the fact that this species had
>>>a very brief (although prolific) existence from the late Pliocene to the
>>>early Pleistocene, that all other sinistral cones from that space and
>>>time (eight named since 1990 alone) were junior synonyms, and that it
>>>probably was a worm-eater.
>>>Some Conus adversarius lived in the last million years, just how many
>>>hundreds of thousands of years before and after then is a matter for
>>>geochronologists and stratigraphers to fine-tune. Maybe another lister
>>>has a more precise handle on this. I don't think Dr. Jon Hendricks was
>>>that concerned about such n umbers.
>>>Harry
>>>
>>>At 08:05 AM 1/4/2007, John Varner wrote:
>>>>there is a fairly common fossil sinistral Conus found in Florida. I
>>>>have personally found 2 That could pass for beach-worn specimens. I am
>>>>not a paleomalacologist by any stretch, but I believe most Florida shell
>>>>fossils date to within the past million years.
>>
>>Harry G. Lee, M. D.
>>4132 Ortega Forest Dr.
>>Jacksonville, FL 32210 USA
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>>look at www.jaxshells.org
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