Pecten (Chlamys) latiauritus var. fragilis Arnold, 1903
ARNOLD, R. 1903. The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, 3: 1-420, pls. 1-37. [p. 112, pl. 12, fig. 8]
«32. Pecten (Chlamys) latiauritus Con., var. fragilis, var. nov.
PLATE XII, Fig. 8. Shell of same general type as P. latiauritus. More compressed and much thinner; ribs seven to nine, very low and rounded, with shallow, rounded interspaces; surface smooth, the concentric sculpture being nearly obsolete; hinge long, ears sharply pointed.
Dimensions.— Long. 26 mm.; alt. 26 mm.; diam. 78 mm.; hinge 25 mm. Distinguishable from var. flucicolus Dall, which it resembles, by having a longer hinge-line and pointed ears.
Rare in upper San Pedro series of San Pedro and Los Cerritos. The specimen figured is the type, which is from the upper San Pedro series at San Pedro, and is now in the United States National Museum. Pleistocene.— San Pedro (Arnold).» RALPH ARNOLD, 1903
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R. Arnold, 1903, plate 12.
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