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"Berry, William B. N."

Berry, William B. N.: SEE Floyd et al., 1958. (detail)
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Floyd, D. N.; Miller, Theophile H.; Berry, William B. N. (detail)
   
1958
Miocene paleoecology in the Burkeville area, Newton County, Texas.
Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Socs. 8: 157-165. 2 pls. Oct. 1958.
–Reports "teeth of a sea cow and a ray and some bone fragments of turtles, catfish, and bony pikes ... associated with the valves of Ostrea normalis.... Sea cows and rays lived near the oysters and fed on them" (160-161). This Late Miocene "sea cow" was the "?Desmostylus" reported by Stenzel et al. (1944). Reinhart (1976: 286-287) identified the tooth fragments as proboscidean.

Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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