Allen,

Thanks for reacting. With your permission, this is a question I will forward
to Carlos Duarte, and maybe you can discuss this further with him from that
point on? I would like to answer myself, but my problem is that I know as
much from the Pliocene as Sylvester Stallone knows about acting ;=)

Please react if you don't want this forwarded. If I don't hear from you by
tomorrow, this message will be sent, ok?
best regards,

Jan Haspeslagh


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Subject: Re: Glycymeris inflata


> Jan,
> In America there are many beaches where Pliocene fossils weather out and
get washed up on the shore.  Can you check if there are any Pliocene or
older outcrops, either onshore or offshore, near the alleged reappearance of
this fossil species?  Would it be possible to compare the shell with recent
ones re oxygen isotopes or something else that would be indicative of
growing at a time of warmer seas than the present?
> Allen Aigen
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