At 10:55 AM 10/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>A couple of additional notes on Campanile:
>
>If I recall correctly, a talk at AMS reported that they are genetically
>rather distinct from cerithioids, based on mitochondrial gene order.
>
>There is some disagreement about the type of Campanile.  Le Renard
>(Cossmanniana, 1(2-4):1-14) cites a monograph by Delpey.  Fischer 1884 did
>not designate a type; both symbolicum (as laeve Quoy and Gaimard non Perry)
>and giganteum were included.  Cossmann (1906) designated giganteum as the
>type, but as the original genus description includes features of the
>operculum, symbolicum seems to better fit the original description of the
>genus.  If symbolicum is considered the type, then Campanilopa Iredale,
>1917 is available for giganteum and its relatives (with sculpture very
>different from the modern species).
>
>Dirocerithium is not the only New World campanilid.

David and all,

The reference that you (David) are looking for is:

Jung, Peter, "Giant gastropods of the genus Campanile from the Caribbean
Eocene," Eclogae Geol. Helv., v 80, no 3, p 889-896, December 1987.

As you said, it has a rather impressive foldout plate of what is called
Campanile cf. giganteum (Lamarck, 1804).  The plate presents the largest
specimen (actually 2 separate specimens aligned to make a composite), an
estimated whopping 90 cm (9/10's of a meter) in length!!!

Oops, might have to replace that plastic collecting bucket to hold that one!!

Paul

P.S.  There is also a nice plate of a much smaller Campanile giganteum
(Lamarck, 1804) from the Eocene of the Paris Basin.

Jung has an impressive
>foldout plate of a Caribbean specimen, closely related to giganteum but
>bigger and a good candidate for largest known gastropod.  I do not have the
>exact reference at hand.  Specimens of this group occur in various parts of
>the Caribbean and Florida.
>
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