MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Pleurotoma lunatum H. C. Lea, 1843 †) Lea, H. C. (1843). Abstract of a paper read before the American Philosophical Society, May 29th, 1843, entitled "Descriptions of some new fossil shells, from the Tertiary of Petersburg, Virginia". H.C. Lea, Philadelphia. 12 pp. [Published before 18 October 1843. A separate and advanced publication of H.C. Lea 1846, with the same title].
page(s): 11 [details]
basis of record
Ward, L.W. & Blackwelder, B.W. (1987). Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at the Lee Creek Mine. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology.</em> 61: 113-283., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58085640
page(s): 181, pl. 45 figs 4–6 [details]
additional source
Mansfield, W. C. (1930). Miocene gastropods and scaphopods of the Choctawhatchee Formation of Florida. <em>Florida State Geological Survey, Bulletin.</em> 3: 1-185, 21 pls., available online at https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00000437/00001
page(s): 33-34, pl. 2, fig. 9 [details]