Pecten kunkuma Maury, 1925
MAURY, C. J. 1925. A further contribution to the Paleontology of Trinidad (Miocene Horizons). Bulletins of American Paleontology, 10 (42), 250 pp., pls. 1-43. [p. 240 (88)]
«Pecten kunkuma (new name)
Pecten vaughani Cooke, 1919, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publ. No. 291, p. 133, pl. 8, figs. 2, 3, 4.
Not Pecten (Lyropecten) vaughani Arnold, 1906, U. S. Geol. Surv., Prof. Paper No. 47, p. 81, pl. 23, figs. 3, 3a, 3b. Dr. Cooke's name for his Anguilla Pecten is preoccupied by Dr. Arnold's Pecten from the Miocene of Ojai Valley, Ventura County, California.
For the Anguilla shell the Sanscrit word kunkuma, for crocus is suggested. Locality.— Crocus Bay, Anguilia. Horizon.— Oligocene.» CARLOTTA JOAQUINA MAURY, 1925
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C. W. Cooke, 1919, plate 8.
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