Dear Andy et al.,

Having just tended to Dr. Watters, visited the Exogyra website, and ordered
the 3rd bivalve volume of the Treatise, I must now report a little more on
the Exogyra species given me last Wednesday by my buddy.  He DID collect it
VERY close to the Florida-Alabama border on the east side of US 231.  He
states that the site was less than a mile south of the intersection of SR
55. The specimen was in the roadcut, and a creek parallels that side of the
road along this stretch.  No other material was brought back, but the
collector had no interest in more than a single souvenir for his
shell-fanatic friend.

I suspect this occurrence is likely the outcome of one of those "reworking"
scenarios of which Andy R. and David wrote.

Harry


At 09:40 AM 10/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Harry,
>
>No problem. The "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology" is published by the
>Geological Society of America:
>
>http://www.geosociety.org/
>
>Exogyra costata was named in this article (v. 2, p. 43; 1820):
>
>Say, Thomas, 1819-20, Observations on some species of zoophytes, shells, &c.
>principally fossil: American Journal of Science & Arts, series 1, v. 1, no.
>4, p. 381-387 (1819); v. 2, no. 1, p. 34-45 (1820).
>
>--which I think was reprinted 76 years later in:
>
>Say, Thomas, 1896, A reprint of the paleontological writings of Thomas Say;
>with an introduction by G. D. Harris: Bulletins of American Paleontology, v.
>1, no. 5, p. 271-354.
>
>--a publication that might be slightly more accessible.
>
>Andrew K. Rindsberg
>Geological Survey of Alabama

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