"Pecten" elixatus Conrad, 1844
CONRAD, T. A. 1844. Descriptions of eight new fossil shells of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2: 173-175 [p. 174]
1844 Pecten elixatus Conrad, 1844
Pecten elixatus; T. A. Conrad, 1848, Observations on the Eocene formation, pl. 14, figs. 13, 14.
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«PECTEN elixatus. Suborbicular, inferior valve ventricose, with fourteen wide, elevated, rounded ribs, and with concentric wrinkles. Height 1¼ inches.
Locality. Near Santee canal, South Carolina. Occurs in friable white limestone.» TIMOTHY ABBOT CONRAD, 1844
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«A likely stem group of the Pectininae is the "Pecten" perplanus stock of Glawe (1969), an array of species and subspecies common in the Vicksburgian Stage of the
Oligocene of southeastern U.S.A. Vicksburgian strata are now known to be equivalent in age to the Rupelian and early Chattian of Europe (Siesser 1984; Rossbach and Carter 1991). Both G. D. Harris (1951: 9) and Glawe (1969: 39) suggested that a probable ancestor of the P. perplanus stock in the Eocene is "Pecten" elixatus Conrad, 1844, said to be from the "Santee Limestone" of South Carolina (Glawe 1969: 39). The precise position of this fossil within limestone beds that have been called "Santee Limestone" is unknown and there is substantial confusion regarding the correlation of limestone units in this area (Campbell 1995). True Santee Limestone is generally regarded as Middle Eocene (middle Lutetian through Banonian) in age (Palmer and Brann 1965; W.B. Harris et al. 1984), but it is possible that this species is from a later Eocene unit.» WALLER, T. R. 2006. New Phylogenies of the Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia): reconciling Morphological and Molecular Approaches. In S.E. Shumway & G.J. Parsons (Ed.) 2006: Scallops: Biology, Ecology and Aquaculture, 1-44. [p. 22]
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Pecten elixatus Conrad?; G. D. Harris, 1951, Preliminary notes on Ocala Bivalves, pl. 32, figs. 9, 10.
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