> ---------- > From: MR ART WEIL[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: dinsdag 12 januari 1999 20:02 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Entemnotrochus > > 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]