TRANSACTIONS OF WAGNER 

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TERTIARY FAUNA OF FLORIDA 



Order TELEODESMACEA. 



For reasons of convenience, some groups of this order having been 

 completed in manuscript as much as two years ago, and it^eing desirable to 

 print them as early as practicable, the series of families is here begun with 

 the Teredinidce, an order the reverse of that appearing in the list of families 

 on page 484 of this volume. 



Superfamily ADESMACEA. 

 FAMILY TEREDINID^E. 



Genus TEREDO Linne. 



Teredo Linne, Syst. Nat., Ed. x., p. 651, 1758. Type T. navalis Linne. 

 Xylophagus Meuschen, Zooph. Gronovianum, p. 258, 1781. Same type. 



The tubes of Teredo and its allies appear in all the Tertiary horizons of 

 North America which have been well searched, and a number of names have 

 been applied to them, but so far, I believe (unless Pliolas rhotnboidca Lea, 

 from the Miocene of Petersburg, Virginia, be founded on a valve of Teredo), 

 the valves of none of the species have been described or figured. This leaves 

 the species of the genus in our Tertiary in a very unsatisfactory state, and it 

 has even been suspected that some of the tubes described as teredine are 

 really the shelly retreats of Serpulidce or other tubicolous worms. In this 

 uncertainty, I shall content myself with giving a list of the names which have 

 been proposed, with references, leaving to a more propitious time the task of 

 examining into their validity or determining their synonomy. 



Eocene. 



1. Teredo emacerata Whitfield, Lam. N. J., p. 242, pi. xxx., fig. 25, 1885. 



Eocene marl of New Jersey. 



2. Teredo mississifpiensis Conrad, Wailes, Geol. Miss., p. 289, 1854; Eoc. 



Checkl. S. I., p. 24, 1866 (name only). Upper Eocene of Jackson, 

 Mississippi. 



3. Teredo piigctcnsis White, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., No. 51, p. 62, pi. 8, fig. I, 



1889. Eocene of the Puget Group, Puget Sound, Washington, from 

 Carbonado, Washington. 



4. Teredo simplex Lea, Contr. Geol., p. 38, pi. I, fig. 6, 1833. Claiborrie sands 



at Claiborne, Alabama. 



