> For those who think that the fossil record may be useful, it is far more
> over named than the recent.  Unfortunately one or more varieties in
> almost every geologic subunit received a species name from Ed Petuch in
> his 1994 Atlas, with no indication of their variability.  He managed to
> muddy the water even more by using Heilprin's 1886 name Melongena.
> subcoronata  ( a well known, well documented species from the late
> Pliocene Caloosahatchee Formation) for a late Pleistocene Ft. Thompson
> form of M. corona.  A variant of M. subcoronata was renamed M.
> caloosahatcheensis.  The common form was left undocumented...


That's Pet Ook... Synonyms Universal. Bad science.

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Regards
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut

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