Re: NAmerican Paleogene molluscs

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>Dear colleagues:
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>	Could anyone refer me to the pertinent literature regarding
>freshwater fishes of the North American Paleogene? I'm working on
>early Eocene mammals of northwestern Wyoming, and have a couple of
>fish fossils in my collection which I would like to identify 
>(vertebrae mainly). I'm not well versed in the fish literature, so
>any advice would be appreciated.
>	I also have a few molluscs in the same collection, and I
>would also appreciate some leads on the freshwater mollusc literature
>for the same time/place.
>
>Thank you for any help.
>
>Michel Chartier
>
>
>
I have been working on a review of the North American pre-Pleistocene
unionacaeans for several years. Here is a partial list of references for the
Paleogene - I have not limited them by geographical area. *Some deal mainly
with other Periods, but contain info or species from the Paleogene* The list
is not exhaustive, and deals only with unionaceans. I also would be very
interested in seeing photos of or the specimens themselves you need to
identify. 

Cockerell, T. D. A. 1915. New species of Unio from the Tertiary rocks of
Wyoming. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34: 121-126.

Cook, H. J. & W. C. Mansfield. 1933. A new mollusk from the Chadron
formation (Oligocene) of Nebraska. Journal of the Washington Academy of
Sciences 23: 263-267.

Hanley, J. H. & R. M. Flores. 1987. Taphonomy and paleoecology of nonmarine
Mollusca: indicators of alluvial plain lacustrine sedimentation, upper part
of the Tongue River Member, Fort Union Formation (Paleocene), northern
Powder River basin , Wyoming and Montana. Palaios 2: 479-496.

MacNeil, F. S. 1935. Fresh-water mollusks from the Catahoula sandstone
(Miocene) of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 9: 10-17, pls. 3-5.

Maury, C.J. 1902. A comparison of the Oligocene of western Europe and the
southern United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 3(15):1-94, pls.
28-29

Miller, S.A. 1880. North American Mesozoic and Caenozoic geology and
palaeontology. Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History
3(3):165-202.

Modell, H. 1957. Die fossilen Najaden Nordamerikas. Arch. Moll. 86: 183-200.

Russell, L. S. 1931a. Mollusca from the upper Cretaceous and lower Tertiary
of Alberta. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada (3rd ser) 25: 9-19,
pls. 1, 2.

Russell, L. S. 1931b. Early Tertiary Mollusca of Wyoming. Bulletins of
American Paleontology 18: 1-30, 4 pls.

Russell, L. S. 1932a. Mollusca from the McMurray Formation of northern
Alberta. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 26: 37-43, pl. 1.

Russell, L.S. 1932b. Fossil non-marine Mollusca from Saskatchewan.
Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 18: 337-341, pl. 1.

Russell, L.S. [January] 1934a. Reclassification of the fossil Unionidae
(fresh-water mussels) of western Canada. Canadian Field-Naturalist 48: 1-4

Russell, L.S. [March] 1934b. New fossil fresh-water Mollusca from the
Cretaceous and Paleocene of Montana. Journal of the Washington Academy of
Sciences 24: 128-131.

Russell, L.S. 1935. Fauna of the Upper Milk River beds, southern Alberta.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 29: 115-128, pls. 1-5.

Russell, L.S. 1967. Unionidae from the Cretaceous and Tertiary of Alberta
and Montana. Journal of Paleontology 41: 1116-1120.

Stanton, T. W. 1905. Invertebrate fauna. U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin
257: 104-123, pls. 12, 13 [in] Stanton, T. W. & J. B. Hatcher, Geology and
paleontology of the Judith River beds. U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 257:
1-123, 13 pls. 

Tozer, E. T. 1956. Uppermost Cretaceous and Paleocene non-marine molluscan
faunas of western Alberta. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir (280): 1-125.

White, C. A. 1877a. Descriptions of Unionidae and Physidae collected by
Professor E. D. Cope from the Judith River Group of Montana Territory during
the summer of 1876. Bulletin of the U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey
of the Territories 3: 599-602.

White, C. A. 1877c. Catalogue of the invertebrate fossils hitherto published
from the fresh- and brackish-water deposits of the western portion of North
America. Bulletin of the U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the
Territories 3: 607-614.

White, C. A. 1883c. Fossils of the Laramie group. 12th Annual Report of the
U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories for the Year
1878. Part I: 49-103, pls. 20-30.

White, C. A. 1883d. On the commingling of ancient faunal and modern floral
types in the Laramie Group. American Journal of Science (3) 26: 120-123.

White, C. A. 1883h. A review of the non-marine fossil Mollusca of North
America. Third Annual Report of the U. S. Geological Survey, 1881-1882: 403-564.

White, C. A. 1895a. The Bear River formation and its characteristic fauna.
Bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey (128): 1-108, 11 pls.

White, C. A. 1907. The ancestral origin of the North American Unionidae, or
fresh-water mussels. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 48: 75-88, pls.
26-31.

Whiteaves, J. F. 1885. Report on the Invertebrata of the Laramie and
Cretaceous rocks of the vicinity of the Bow and Belly Rivers and adjacent
localities in the North-West Territory. Contributions to Canadian
Palaeontology 1: 1-89, 11 pls.

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