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TERTIARY FAUNA OF FLORIDA 



Subgenus CARDITES Link. 



Section Cordites s. s. 



Cordites Link, Besch. Rostock Samml., p. 153, 1807; sole ex. Chama antiquata L. (= C. 



sulcata Bruguiere+C. Bruguieri Rovereto). 



Cardita Megerle, Entwurf, p. 67, 1811 (C. antiquata) ; not of Lamarck, 1799. 

 <^Arcinella Oken, Lehrb. d. Naturg., pp. viii., 232, 234, 1815; not of Schumacher, 1817. 

 Cardita a. Schumacher, Essai, p. 141, 1817. 

 Cardita Gray, Ann. Mag. N. Hist., xiv., p. 22, 1854. 



Section Cyclocardia Conrad. 

 Arcturus (Humphrey MS.) Gray, Zool. Beechey's Voy., p. 152, 1839; Gould, Inv. Mass., 



p. 94, 1841 ; Cardita borealis Conrad ; not Arcturus Cuvier, Crustacea, 1829. 

 Cyclocardia Conrad, Am. Journ. Conch., iii., p. 191, 1867; Morse, An. Rep. Peabody 



Acad., Salem, Mass., p. 76, 1869; Tryon, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. for 1872, p. 



255; Struct. Syst. Conch., iii., p. 233, 1884; Fischer, Man., p. 1010, 1887 (C. borealis 



Conrad). 

 Scalaricardita Sacco, Moll. Piem. e Lig., xxvii., p. 22, 1899. Type C. scalaris Sowerby, 



Min. Conch., v., p. 146, pi. ccccxc., fig. 3, 1825. 

 Actinobolus Morse, Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci., Salem, Mass., p. 76, 1869; not of 



Morch, 1853. 



Subgenus PLEUROMERIS Conrad. 



Pleuromeris Conrad, Am. Journ. Conch., iii., p. 12, 1867. Type Cardita tridentata Say, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. Phila. for 1872, p. 52; Fischer, Man., p. 1010, 1887. 



Subgenus PTEROMERIS Conrad. 



Pteromeris Conrad, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. for 1862, p. 578, 1863 (Cardita abbreviata and 



C. radians Conrad, 1841) ; not Pteromeris Conrad, Am. Journ. Conch., i., p. 9, 1865 



(Astarte minutissima Lea). 

 Coripia de Gregorio, Bull. Soc. Mai. Ital., x., p. 153, 1885. Type Cardita unidentata 



Basterot = C. corbis Philippi, En. Moll. Sicilise, i., p. 55, pi. iv., fig. 19, 1836, and 



Wood, Crag. Moll., Bivalves, p. 168, pi. xv., fig. 2, 1853. 



Subgenus MIODONTISCUS Oall, n. nov. 



Miodon Carpenter, Suppl. Rep. Brit. Assoc., p. 642, 1864; Ann. Mag. N. Hist., 3d Ser., 

 xiv., p. 424, 1864. Type M. prolongatus Cpr., loc. cit.; Stearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xiii., p. 217, pi. xvi., figs. 7, 9, 1890; not Miodon Sandberger, Land u. Sussw. Conch, 

 der Vorwelt, p. 35, 1870, Cyrena media Sowerby, upper Jura. Miodontopsis Dall, 

 1903. Not Miodon Dumeril, Arch. Mus. d'hist. Nat, x., p. 206, 1859. (Rept.) 



Subgenus NEOCARDIA Sowerby. 



Neocardia Sowerby, Mar. Shells S. Africa, p. 63, 1892. Type N. angulata Sowerby, loc. 

 cit., pi. iii., fig. 66. 



