Paleonet: Ostreidae: Rastellum and Arctostrea

[Simon Schneider]

Dear Harry,

Two tricky ones to tell apart. Good luck!/
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/Rastellum /Faujas de Saint Fond, 1799, original description here: 
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59797502
Type species: /Ostrea macroptera/ J. de C. Sowerby, 1824, by subsequent 
monotypy; designated by: Winkler, T. C. 1864. Musée Teyler, Catalogue 
systématique de la collection paléontologique. Deuxieme livraison. 
Harlem, Les Héritiers Loosjes; p. 251; available here: 
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UNdAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

/Arctostrea /Pervinquière, 1910, original description in: Pervinquière, 
L. 1910. Quelques observations sur la nomenclature de ostracés, à propos 
de la
classification phylogénétique exposée par M. H. Douville. Compte-Rendu 
Sommaire des Séances de la Société Géologique de France,
1910( 13-14), 119-120 (I don't think this is available online); 
re-published in 1911 here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31097185
Type species is /Ostrea carinata/ Lamarck, 1819, by original designation.

All the best,
Simon

On 25/02/2022 17:54, Harry Lee wrote:
> Dear communicants,
>
> As a neontologist, I've been put to the test in documenting two 
> genus-level nomina in the Ostreidae. /Rastellum/ and /Arctostrea/ 
> appear to be extinct Cretaceous taxa, to which species like /Ostrea 
> carinata/ Lamarck, 1806 [non Schröter, 1802] and /O. colubrina/ 
> Lamarck, 1819 have been assigned.
>
> I'd like to pin down the original descriptions and type species of 
> these two entities. I've tried to get the www to cough up this info, 
> but it won't comply. I suspect the answer may be somewhere in 
> /Treatise on Invertebrate paleontology, Part N, /but my hardcopy was 
> destroyed by a flood ten years ago.
>
> Can anyone give me a hand here?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Harry
>
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Dr. Simon Schneider
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