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P. 10, "Pyrula canicalata" to _Pyrula caniculata_.
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward
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The error is in regard to the habitat of the conch shell, _Pyrula (now Busycon) perversa_.
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Wilson on the conch shell (_Pyrula_), 143 carvings of tropical animals, 142
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(Pyrula) perversa_ is not only found in the United States, but extends along the coast up to C.arleston, S.C., with rare specimens as far north as Beaufort, N.C. Moreover, archæologists have usually confounded this species with the _Busycon carica_, which is of common occurrence in the mounds.
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In like manner, it is the presence of such genera as Pyrula, Columbella, Terebra, Cassidaria,
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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_Suckáuhock_ was made from the stem of the _Venus mercenaria_, or common round clam, popularly known as the quauhaug; _wampum_ from the column and inner whorls of the _Pyrula carica_ and _Pyrula caniculata_ [2] [Lam.], species known as Winkles or Periwinkles among fishermen, and the largest convoluted shells of our New England coast. [
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward
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