The specimen catalogue of the Collection of Fossil Vertebrates in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wyoming in Laramie is now available on the World Wide Web. The URL for the site is http://paleo.gg.uwyo.edu. The construction of the website is the final step in the collection improvement grant (DBI-9808626) awarded by the National Science Foundation to Jay Lillegraven and Mike Cassiliano. The website was built by Brian Kraatz, a graduate student of Jay's. The specimen catalogue lists over 41,000 vertebrate fossils, an increase of more than 14,000 since the start of the grant. The collection's main focus is on mammals from the late Cretaceous, Paleocene, and early Eocene.

The West Indian Top-shell, Cittarium pica (Linnaeus, 1758), is a very classic and common species of the Caribbean faunal province. Until now the only known fossil occurrence of Cittarium pica, and of the genus Cittarium, is from Pleistocene deposits restricted to the Caribbean province (Clench and Abbott, 1943). Despite the turbiniform shell, the monotypic genus Cittarium belongs to the family Trochidae and was assigned to the tribe Gibbilini Stoliczka, 1868 by Hickman and McLean (1990). This paper reports a new species of Cittarium and the only record outside the Caribbean province. More than twenty million years separate the single modern species of Cittarium and the new fossil species. All material collected is deposited in Museum national d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN).

The Midyear Council Meeting of The Paleontological Society (PS) was called to order by President Patricia H. “Tricia” Kelley on 10 March 2001 at 8:10 hrs in Room 291 of Mendenhall Laboratory on the campus of The Ohio State University. Attending were Council members William I. Ausich, Thomas W. Kammer, Carl W. Stock, Christopher G. Maples, Nigel C. Hughes, Seth Finnegan, Ann F. “Nancy” Budd, Mark A. Wilson, Dale A. Springer, Russell H. “Tim” White, Jed Day, and Elizabeth “Liz” Nesbitt. Steven J. Hageman, and Peter J. Harries were also present.