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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A work of that magnitude has naturally benefitted from the help of many colleagues and friends
who provided access to, or photocopies of, rare and difficult literature. At the risk of omitting some,
we would like to cite and thank the following for their extensive help. Marina Dolgolenko hosted
the first author in 1990 in what was then Leningrad and helped him copy hundreds of pages in
several local libraries, among others at the All-Union Geological Institute of the Ministry of Geol-
ogy; Alan R. Kabat copied literature in Washington, D. C, and Cambridge, Mass., and applied his
bibliographical skills to reviewing an earlier version of the MS; Rudo von Cosel, through a grant
from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Gary Rosenberg, researched the resources of the
Senckenberg Bibliothek, Frankfurt; Amelia Campbell copied material from the libraries of The
Natural History Museum, London; Claudia Handl researched national and academic libraries in
Vienna and Budapest; Ma Qiyong, Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Academia Sinica, Nanking,
provided original material, copies, and expert advice on the Chinese paleontological literature;
Akihiko Matsukuma, Ian Loch, Bruce Marshall, Anders Waren, Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, and
José Templado provided additional rare references from Japan, Australia, New Zealand,
Scandinavia, Italy, and Spain, respectively. Tina Molodtsova verified the transliteration of Russian
characters according to the norms of the Library of Congress.
For their opinion on nomenclatural issues, we thank Gerhard Falkner, Bernhard Hausdorf, Diet-
er Kadolsky and Jacques Le Renard. For advice on selected portions of the classification, we also
wish to acknowledge the assistance of Luc Dolin (Cypraeoidea), Daniel Geiger (scissurelliform
Vetigastropoda), Dieter Kadolsky (fossil hydrobioids), Andrzej Kaim (Mesozoic fossils), Yuri Kantor
(Neogastropoda), Heinz Kollmann (Nerineoidea and Cretaceous fossils), Pierre Lozouet and
Jacques Le Renard (Tertiary fossils), Alexander Nützel (Mesozoic fossils), Ellen Strong (Cerithio-
idea), Alexander Sysoev (Conoidea), and Thomas Wilke (hydrobioids).
Rijdiger Bieler, Alan R. Kabat, Richard E. Petit and Gary Rosenberg agreed to contribute their
time and skills to review the manuscript before publication. All errors and inconsistencies naturally
remain our responsibility. Eugene V. Coan gave editorial advice on an earlier draft, and during the
submission phase. Virginie Héros compiled the index.
Finally, last but not least, we would like to thank our colleague Pierre Lozouet, who has structured
the database to our needs, performed backups, searches and updates for us during many
years, and analysed the cumulative data for Figures 1-4.
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provided to facilitate literature searches (e.g., Schileyko instead of Shileiko).
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