EVOLUTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS MYA, AND TERTIARY MIGRATIONS OF MOLLUSCA; CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALEONTOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 483-G
Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey/USGS/Government Printing Office/GPO, 1965. Soft cover. Very good plus. Item #42940
Known first in the early Tertiary of Japan, the genus Mya migrated to western North America, the Arctic Ocean, and to both the European and American sides of the North Atlantic. Signature of J. Wyatt Durham on the front cover. Durham was an invertebrate paleontologist and biostratigrapher. After an early career in petroleum exploration, he spent most of his life as curator and professor in the Museum of Paleontology and the Department of Paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley. 51 pages with maps, bibliography and index, plus eleven plates bound in the rear. Bound in thick gray paper covers printed in black. A very good plus copy.
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