Here is a list of books and journal articles covering the past 150 years
or so that will help with identification of specimens from the Miocene to
Pleistocene epochs in the Maryland to Florida region, MORE to come.
1) WC Mansfield. 1939. Notes on the Upper Tertiary and Pleistocene
Mollusks of Peninsular Florida. Florida Geol. Survey Bull. No. 18. 75
pages, 4 plates
 
2) J Gardner. 1926-1950. The Mollusca Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of
Florida, Part 1-9. US Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 142 A-I. 709 pages, 62
plates
 
3) WH Dall. 1890-1903. Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida.
Tran. Wagner Free Inst. Science Vol. 3 Part 1-6. 1654 pages, many plates
 
4) JA Gardner and TH Aldrich. 1919. Mollusca from the Upper Miocene of
South Carolina with description of new species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philadelphia. Feb. 1919. pages 17-54, 4 plates
 
5) MR Campbell and LD Campbell. 1995. Preliminary Biostratigraphy and
Molluscan Fauna of the Goose Creek Limestone of Eastern South Carolina.
Tulane Studies in Geol. and Paleon. Vol. 27, No. 1-4. pages 53-100, 5
platews
 
6) E Petuch. 1991. New Gastropods from the Plio-Pleistocene of
Southwestern Florida and the Everglades Basin. WH Dall Paleo. Research
Instit. Spec. Publ. No. 1
 
7) E Petuch. 1994. Atlas of Florida Fossil Shells (Pliocene and
Pleistocene Marine Gastropods).
 
8) AA Olsson and RE Petit. 1964. Some Neogene Mollusca from Florida and
the Carolinas. Bull. Amer. Paleon. Vol. 47, No. 217. pages 509-575, 7
plates
 
9) TA Conrad. 1832-1837 (reprint 19xx). Fossil Shells of the Tertiary
Formations of North America. 121 pages, 20 plates
 
10) LB Kellum. 1926. Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and
Trent Marls in North Carolina. US Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 143, 56 pages,
11plates
 
11) CJ Maury. 1920, 1922. Recent Molluscs of the Gulf of Mexico and
Pleistocene and Pliocene Species from the Gulf States. Bull. Amer. Paleon.
Vol. 8, No. 34 and Vol. 9, No. 38. 282 pages, 1 plates
 
12) A Heilprin. 1887. Exporations of the West Coast of Florida and in the
Okeechobee Wilderness. Trans. Wagner Free Instit. Science Vol 1. pages
371-506, 19 plates
 
13) BW Blakewelder. 1981. Late Cenozoic Stages and Molluscan Zones of the
US Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain. J. Paleontology Vol. 55, Suppliment to
No. 5. 34 pages, 10 plates
 
14) JR DuBar. 1958. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Late Neogene
Strata of the Caloosahatchee River Area of Southern Florida.  Fla. Geol.
Survey Geol. Bull. 40. 267 pages, 12 plates
 
15) RS Spencer and LD Campbell. 1987. The Fauna and Paleoecology of the
Late Pleistocene Marine Sediments of Southeastern Virginia.  Bull. Amer.
Paleon. Vol. 92, No. 327. 124 pages, 15 plates
 
16) J Gardner. 1943, 1948. Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of
Virginia and North Carolina. US Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 199 A/B. 310
pages, 38 plates
 
17) M Toumey and FS Holmes. 1855-1857( xxx reprint). Pleiocene Fossils of
South Carolina. 152 pages, 30 plates
 
18) E Emmons. 1858 ( 1969 reprint). Report of the North Carolina
Geological Survey, Agriculture of the Eastern Counties; together with
Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds. Bull. Amer. Paleon. Vol. 56,
No. 249. pagesxxx-yyy, zzz figures
 
19) -----. 1906 (1965 reprint). Maryland Geological Survey Pliocene and
Pleistocene. 291 pages, 75 plates, 41 of fossils
 
20) -----. 1904 (1979 reprint). Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text
and Plates (2 vol.). 543 pages, 135 plates
 
21) HE Vokes. 1957 ( 1982 reprint). Miocene Fossils of Maryland. Maryland
Geol. Survey Bull. 20. 85 pages, 31 plates
 
22) LW Ward and NL Gilinsky. 1993. Molluscan Assemblages of the Chowan
River Formation, Part A. Virginia Mus. Nat. Hist. Memoir 3, Part A. 33
pages, 1 plate
 
23) CE Ray, editor. 1983. Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine,
North Carolina, I. Smithsonian Contributions in Paleobiology No. 53. 529
pages (16 papers)
 
24) CE Ray, editor. 1987. Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine,
North Carolina, II. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology No. 61. 283
pages, 85 plates ( 6 papers)
 
25)LW Ward. 1992. Molluscan Biostratigraphy of the Miocene, Middle
Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Mus. Nat. Hist. Memoir
2. 159 pages, 26 plates
 
26) LD Campbell. 1993. Pliocene Mollusca from the Yorktown and Chowan
River Formations in Virgina. Virginia Div. Mineral Resources Publ. 127.
259 pages, 43 plates
 
27) AA Olsson and A Harbison. 1953. Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida.
457 pages, 65 plates
 
28) E Petuch. 1988. Neogene History of the Tropical American Mollusks. 217
pages, 39 plates
 
Sorry for the length.  Next one will be shorter
 
Charlie
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Charlie Sturm, Jr
Research Associate - Section of Invertebrate Zoology
                     Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Assistant Professor - Family Medicine
 
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