TRANSACTIONS OF WAGNER 



TERTIARY FAUNA OF FLORIDA 



Binney's Gould's Inv. Mass., p. 133, fig. 52, 1870; Verrill, Inv. An. Viney. Sd., p. 681, 



pi. xxvi., fig. 184, 1873; Dall, Bull. 37 U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 54, pi. lv., fig. 7, pi. Ixxi., 



figs. I, 3, 1889. 



Pectunculus mercenaries Da Costa, in Cat. Calonnianum, p. 48, No. 911, 1797. 

 Venus meretrix Bolten, Mus. Bolt., p. 126, No. 287, 1798; not of Linne, 1758. 

 Mercenaria violacea Schumacher, Essai, p. 135, pi. x., fig. 3, 1817; Deshayes, Cat. Conch. 



Brit. Mus., p. 113, 1853; H. and A. Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll., ii., p. 419, 1857; Holmes, 



Post-Pi. Fos. S. Car., p. 33, pi. vi., fig. n, 1858. 

 Mercenaria mercenaria Morch, Cat. Yoldi, ii., p. 23, 1853 ; Chenu, Man. Conch., ii., p. 82, 



%s. 356, 357, 358, 1862; Tryon, Am. Mar. Conch., p. 158, figs. 388-90, 1874; Syst. 



Conch., iii., p. 176, 1884. 



Crassivenus mercenaria Perkins, Proc. Boston Soc. N. Hist., xiii., p. 147, 1869. 

 Pectunculus fasciatus, Binney's Gould's Inv. Mass., p. 134, note, 1870. 

 Mercenaria canccllata Gabb, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d Ser., iv., p. 376, pi. Ixvii., fig. 



25, 1860; Conrad, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., xiv., p. 574, 1863; Whitfield, Miocene 



Fos. N. J., p. 68, pi. xii., figs. 2, 3, 1895 ; not Venus cancellata Linne, 1758. 

 Venus mercenaria var. antiqua Verrill, Am. Journ. Sci., 3d Ser., x., p. 371, 1875; not 



Venus antiqua King, 1831. 



Venus mercenaria var. notata Say. 



Venus notata Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii., p. 271, 1822 ; De Kay, Zool. N. Y., v., 

 p. 218, pi. xxvii., fig. 278, 1843 ; Philippi, Abb. u. Beschr. Conch., i., p. 128, pi. ii., fig. 

 3, 1844; Mighels, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv., p. 320, 1843; Reeve, Conch. Icon., xiv., 

 Venus, pi. ii., fig. 43, 1863 ; Binney's Gould's Inv. Mass., p. 135, fig. 446, 1870 ; not of 

 Gould, Inv. Mass., pi. iv., fig. 67, lower outline. 



Venus obliqua Anton, Archiv fur Naturg., 1837, i., p. 284. 



Venus cyprinoides Anton, Verz. Conch., p. 9, 1839. 



Cytherea notata Morch, Cat. Yoldi, p. 23, 1853. 



Mercenaria notata Deshayes, Cat. Conch. Brit. Mus., p. 114, 1853; H. and A. Adams, 

 Gen. Rec. Moll., ii., p. 419, 1857; Holmes, Post-Pi. Fos. S. Car., p. 33, pi. vi., fig. n, 

 1858. 



Fossil in the older Miocene of the Choptank River, Maryland, and subse- 

 quently in the Miocene of Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and 

 of Maryland, Virginia, and Florida ; in the Pliocene of the Carolinas and 

 Florida ; in the Pleistocene of Sankoty Head, Nantucket, Massachusetts ; of 

 Rhode Island ; Wailes Bluff, near Cornfield Harbor, Maryland ; Simmons 

 Bluff, South Carolina, and many other localities on the Atlantic coast of the 

 United States. 



Living from the Bay of Chaleur, Gulf of St. Lawrence, locally, in various 



