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fossils, and 'was one of the first to place them ... in a primarily 

 biological context . . . Coionna also applied the same precise nomen- 

 clature to his fossils as to his living animals, distinguishing different 

 kinds of related fossils with more accuracy then ever before' 

 (Rudwick, 1985:42). 



Coionna was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of 

 Lynxes), and in 1606, he published a work on natural history: Minus 

 cognitarum stirpium aliquot, ac etiam rariorum nostra coelo 

 orientium [ecphrasis] . . De aquatilibus, aliisque animalibus 

 quibusdam paucis libellus [plants pp. 3-340; animals I-LXXIII]. A 

 new edition was published in 1616 (Coionna, 1616a-c), including 

 part 111, Purpura (of which De purpura, aliisque testaceis rarioribus. 



pp. 1-29. and De glossopetris dissertatio, pp. 31-39, are two chap- 

 ters), in which he described and figured a number of shells, some 

 fossil and some living. His illustration on page 22 (Fig. 1 herein) was 

 a woodcut of five shells. The upper three specimens are double- 

 valved brachiopods. while the lower specimens are internal molds of 

 bivalves. The plate is not numbered, and the five specimens are 

 distinguished by brief captions placed above each specimen. 



Linnaeus (1758: 703) made three separate references to the illus- 

 trations of brachiopods on this plate in his discussion of species of 

 Anomia. Under Caputserpentis. 200., he gave a brief description, 

 and referred to Column, purp. 22. f.2, i.e. the smooth brachiopod on 

 the upper right. Brunton & Cocks (1967) discussed in detail the 



