Rebeccapecten trentensis (Harris in van Winkle & Harris, 1919)
WINKLE, K. V. & G. D.
HARRIS. 1919. New or Otherwise Interesting Tertiary Molluscan Species from the
East Coast of America. A few Mid-Upper Eocene Fossils from the Carolinas and Texas. Bulletins of American Paleontology, 8: 1-32, pl. 1-3. [p. 15, pl. 2, figs. 8, 9]
1919 Pecten trentensis Harris in van Winkle & Harris, 1919
K. V. Winkle & G. D. Harris, 1919, plate 2.
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«Specific characterization.— Form and size as indicated by the illustrations; ribs highly variable in number, size and amount of ornamentation; generally bifid and generally ornamented by highly raised, scale-like or imbricating concentric lines; costation showing a strong tendency towards a tri-or quinque-costate pattern, especially in the left valve; central rib largest of the three or five major ones.
The general appearance of this shell is so different from anythlng we have heretofore found in the Eocene of this part of the United States that, owing to a lack of well-known species from the same locality, its horizon must at present be considered as doubtful. Type and specimens figured.— Deposited by G. D. Harris in Museum at Cornell Univ. Locality.— Found in light, marly bed, right bank of Trent river, near the water's edge, about six miles below Polloksville, North Carolina, in the so-called Trent formation. The latter has been referred to the upper Claiborne or Jackson Eocene.» GILBERT DENNISON HARRIS, 1919
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