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.
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