Just made the library to computer connection, so here are various items:

Sconsia hodgeii, Cassidae:
Campbell, 1993: ranges from lower middle Pliocene through lowermost upper Pliocene, west Florida to Virginia.  He notes a possible undescribed species that has not been adequately sorted out from it (Druid Wilson, pers. comm.)

Abbott, 1968, Indo-Pacific Mollusca assigns it to Phalium (Galeodosconsia).

Trochus tricatenatus: Reeve, 1861

Clypeomorus tuberculatus: Strombus tuberculatus Linnaeus, 1767 is a nomen dubium that has been used for several species of Clypeomorus, fide Higo et al. 1999

Nassarius monilus: Nassa monile Kiener 1834 non Linnaeus, 1771 is a synonym of Niotha distorta (A. Adams, 1852)

Babylonia: did not find the species name, but note that Babylonia has been given its own family, Babyloniidae

Umbonium superbum: Rotella superba Gould, 1861 is a synonym of Umbonium costatum (Valenciennes in Kiener, 1838)

Modiolaria trapezina: Modiola trapesina [sic], Lamarck, 1819

Musculus nanulus: Musculus nanus (Dunker, 1856)


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    Old Seashells
    University of Alabama
    Biodiversity & Systematics
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