TRANSACTIONS OF WAGNER 

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TERTIARY FAUNA OF FLORIDA 



Anomia simplex Orbigny. 



Anoinia I'phippiiini Conrad, Medial Tert. Fos., p. 75, pi. 43, fig. 4, 1845. 

 . \noiiiia simplex Orb., Moll. Cubana, ii., p. 367, pi. 38, figs. 31-3 (1845, Spanish edition), 



1853 ; Dall, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 37, p. 32, pi. 53, figs. I, 2, 1889. 

 Anomia (iconics Gray, P. Z. S., 1849, P- ''6- 

 Anoinia Conradi Orb. , Prodr. Pal., iii., p. 134, pi. 25, fig. 30, 1852; Conrad, Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. for 1862, p. 582, 1863. 

 Anomia ephippium Tuomey and Holmes, Pleioc. Fos. S. Car., p. 18, pi. 5, fig. 4, 1855 ; 



Holmes, P.-P1. Fos. S. Car., p. u, pi. 2, fig. 11, 1858; Emmons, Geol. N. Car., 



p. 277, 1858 ; Gabb, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d Ser., viii., p. 380, 1881. 

 Anoinia glabra Verrill, Am. Journ. Sci., 3d Ser., iii., p. 213, 1872 ; x., p. 372, 1875. 

 Anomia clectrica Gould, Inv. Mass., p. 140, 1841 ; Binney's Gould, p. 205, fig. 499, 1870; 



not of Linne. 

 Anoinia, sqnainula Gould, Inv. Mass., p. 140, 1841 ; Binney's Gould, p. 206 (young), 



1870 ; non Linne. 



Anomia Ruffini Heilprin, Trans. Wagner Inst., i., p. 102, 1887 ; not of Conrad. 

 f Anomia cphippiitm Gabb, Geol. St. Domingo, p. 257, 1873. 



? Oligocene of St. Domingo, Gabb ; Upper Miocene of Duplin County, 

 North Carolina, at the Natural Well, Conrad ; of York and Nansemond 

 Rivers, Virginia, Burns ; Pliocene of the Waccamaw beds, South Carolina, 

 Tuomey and Johnson; of the Caloosahatchie beds, Florida, Dall; of Limon, 

 Costa Rica, Gabb ; Pleistocene of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from the 

 Carolinas southward, Holmes and Burns ; recent from Cape Sable, Nova 

 Scotia, southward to Martinique. . 



I am unable to find any distinctive characters separating the Upper Mio- 

 cene from the recent shells. The surface is normally smooth, and the varia- 

 tions of position in the scars of the left valve are remarkable. In the young 

 the lower pair of scars are usually equal and side by side; as the shell grows 

 older their positions change, and the minor byssal scar is no longer on the 

 same level with that of the adductor. Shells which by some accident of 

 position are forced to grow in elongated form usually have the scars more 

 strung out and more nearly in a single line, than the individuals which 

 maintain a normal suborbicular growth. 



Anoinia aculeata Gmelin. 



Anomia aculeata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vi., p. 3346, 1792; Gould, Inv. Mass., p. 139, fig. 

 90, 1841 ; Binney's Gould, p. 204, fig. 498, 1870; Verrill, Rep. U. S. Fish Com. for 

 1871-2, p. 697, pi. 32, figs. 239, 240, 240^, 1873; Dall, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 No. 37, p. 32, pi. 53, figs. 5-8, 1889. 



