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> From:         NORA BRYAN[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         zaterdag 3 april 1999 2:20
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> Subject:      Eocene Strepsidura
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> Hi all,
> Any fossil experts out there?  (I know there are).  Can anyone tell me
> the Family for the Genus Strepsidura.  I have an Eocene gastropod from
> Damery France labelled Strepsidura sp. and it matches the picture in a
> Dutch journal article we are using.  I have been adding the family to
> the labels using the Millard Classification of Molluscs and this genus
> shows up under Olividae.  It doesn't look like any olive I've ever
> seen.  It looks more like something from Melongenidae  or Volutidae or
> "one of those families".
>
        Your Strepsidura is Strepsidura turgida (Solander, 1766), the only
known specie of the Paris Basin. In Glibert, 1933, this species is placed in
the family Strepsiduridae, near the Buccinidae.
The shell certainly does not look like an Oliva, but more like a Pseudoliva,
this explains the placing you found in the Olividae.
The fossils of Damery are of Lutetian age (an etage of the Eocene) and have
a marvellous conservation. I hope this give you some information.
 
Glibert, M, 1933. Monographie de la Faune malacologique du Bruxellien des
environs de Bruxelles. -- Memoire no 53 du Musee Royal d'histoire Naturelle
de Belgique.
 
Martin Cadee, The Netherlands.