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> From: MR ART WEIL[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: dinsdag 12 januari 1999 20:02
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> Subject: Entemnotrochus
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> Just a question. It occurs to me that in fossil slit shells, the part
> of the shell below the slit is most likely to break off. Are many of
> these fosssils found whole? And where is the best place to view a
> selection of them?
> Art
>
If the deposit where in the Pleurotomaria are found is from calm
water, there shells are not brolek, as I saw in Faxe, Denmark in Danian
deposits. In deposits of turbulent water the shells are broken in the way
indicated. I saw such a specimen from the early Oligocene of the Doberg,
Germany.
M.C. Cadee, the Netherlands, [log in to unmask]