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Re: paleonet asking for help on freshwater gastropod and bivalve I.D.



>  > He's got some late Miocene freshwater gastropods and possibly bivalves as
>  > well, and would like to find out the specific I.D. of them. Therefore he
>  > wondered where and whom he should contact to get help on this.

Where are they from?  Biogeography can be a better indicator than shell morphology for some freshwater species.  

A lot of links on freshwater mollusks, including a listserver (Unio) and an extensive searchable online bibliography, can be found at

http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/collections/mollusk/molluskintro.html

Paleontological and gastropod data are not the strongest points of the bibliography, as it grew out of work on modern unionoid bivalves, but it's a good place to start.  Given a general locality, I could probably provide some ideas on references that might not entirely overlap with it.  

    Dr. David Campbell 
    Old Seashells 
    University of Alabama 
    Biodiversity & Systematics 
    Dept. Biological Sciences 
    Box 870345 
    Tuscaloosa, AL  35487-0345 USA
    bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com

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