"Aequipecten" kuhgaluensis (Eames & Cox, 1956)
EAMES, F. E. & L. R. COX. 1956. Some Tertiary Pectinacea from East Africa, Persia, and the Mediterranean region. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 32 (1): 1-68, pls. 1-20. [p. 12, pl. 2, figs. 4a-d]
1956 Chlamys (Aequipecten) kuhgaluensis Eames & Cox, 1956
F. E. Eames & L. R. Cox, 1956,
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«Material:— Sample KU.318 (Dilli Au Haiyat, Kuhgalu; Asmari Limestone (Oligocene)), the holotype (L.86068).
Description:— Of medium size, rather strongly inflated, subequivalve. Antero-dorsal and postero-dorsal margins of body gently concave, their angle of divergence a little Iess than a right angle at the apex, increasing to about 100°. Posterior ears (now broken) Iarge, approximately right-angled, with 4 or 5 weak, widely-spaced threads; left anterior ear with its outer edge fairly straight but well embayed in its lower part, with 5 or 6 rather faint threads; right anterior ear broken, evidently with some fairly strong threads. 16-17 strong, elevated ribs, the outer ones weak; ribs rather flat-topped, about the same width as their intervals, with rather heavy transverse squamae 1 to 1.5 mm. apart ventrally; the ribs on the left valve also carry on each flank one fine but distinct longitudinal thread bearing small crenulations which are three or four times as numerous as the principal squamae on the main part of the rib; right valve ribs without subsidiary threads. Whole surface covered with microscopic, radial, Anomia- or Camptonectes-like ornament which tends to be divaricate in the intervals between the ribs. Dimensions:— H = 32.8 mm. L = 29.8 mm. Td = 17.2 mm. Remarks:— No closely comparable species has been described.» FRANK EVELYN EAMES & LESLIE REGINALD COX, 1956
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