Chlamys (Chlamys) bellipictus Woodring, 1925
WOODRING, W. P. 1925. Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. Pelecypods and scaphopods. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 366: 222 pp., 28 pls. [p. 66, pl. 8, fig. 3]
«Chlamys (Chlamys) bellipictus, new species.
(Plate 8, Figure, 3) Right valve small, thin, compressed, height slightly exceeding widht; dorsal margins long; radial sculpture consisting of 11 low, rounded ribs, separated by wider interspaces, disappearing on dorsal half of shell; concentric sculpture consisting on fine, microscopic concentric threads over entire surface; auricles subequal, right anterior auricle sculptured with radials and superimposed concentric lamellae, scaly along hinge; byssal notch prominent; interior of valve bearing broad radial undulations corresponding to external intercostal spaces; left valve not known.
Lenght 7 mm.; height 7.5 mm. This species is represented by a small right valve. Dall has described a similar species, C. alumensis, from the Chipola formation; it is more inflated and has more numerous ribs. Type material.— Holotype (right valve, U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 352780).» WENDELL PHILLIPS WOODRING, 1925
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W. P. Woodring, 1925, plate 8.
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