Pecten flindersi Tate, 1886
TATE, R. 1886. The lamellibranchs of Older Tertiary of Australia (part 1). Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, 8: 96-158, pls. 2-12. [p. 108, pl. 7, fig. 7]
«Pecten Flindersi, spec. nov. Plate viii., fig. 7.
Shell obovate to triangular, orbicular, equilateral, or slightly inequilateral, equivalve moderately convex, umbos depressed, acute, ornamented with from 35 to 40 flatly rounded ribs with broader interspaces. The ribs are smooth or surmounted by distant minute scales ; the interspaces are marked with perpendicular engraved lines.
Ears as in P. Eyrei. Dimensions.— Millimetres. Length. Height. Thickness. No. ribs.
54 56 23 35 51 54 — 40 43 50 — 30 35 37 11 37 77 80 38 40 60 — 15 50 Localities.— Griauconite limestone, Aldinga Bay; glauconite sands, Adelaide bore ; clays at Muloowurtie, Yorke Peninsula.
P. Flindersi has a general resemblance to P. rudis, Gr. B. Sowerby in Darwin's Geol. Observ., of the Chilian Tertiary, but that shell has fewer ribs with narrower interspaces. Species-name in commemoration of Captain Flinders, the intrepid Australian navigator.» RALPH TATE, 1886
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R. Tate, 1886, plate 7.
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