James,

All I can provide is a negative. Julia Gardner did extensive fossil
work in North Florida in a seres of pamphlets published between 1923
and 1944 on the Alum Bluff Group.  She often used the species name of
"precursor" for new species.  In this series of 8 pubs the only
mention of Scaphella is on page 403 of Paper 142-F which basically
states that the species doesn't exist in this fossil record.

Jim Brunner
On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:10 PM, James Cheshire wrote:

> Thank you all for your contributions! Isn't it strange that this child
> of the information age never thought of just searching the internet
> for answers? :-)
>
> Good to see you going above and beyond the call of duty again, Harry.
> I'm glad Alan found that info helpful as well.
>
> That pretty much wraps the whole thing up, save for two:
>
> Busycon tropicalis Petuch, ????
> Scaphella precursor Gardner, 1943 or 1948?
>
> I meant to include the former in the big list, but forgot. The
> internet hasn't helped with these.
>
> Thanks again,
> James
>
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