Pecten vaughani Cooke, 1919
COOKE, C. W. 1919. Tertiary mollusks from the Leeward Islands and Cuba. In: T. W. Vaughan (ed.), Contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of the West Indies, pp. 103-156. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC. [p. 133, pl. 8, figs. 2-4]
«Pecten vaughani, new species.
(Plate 8, Figures 2, 3, 4.) The following is a description of this species:
Shell small, compressed, equivalve, equilateral, with 14 or 15 smooth, rounded ribs on right valve, 15 to 17 on left, separated by nearly equal, rounded interspaces; microscopic sculpture of fine, close, concentric lines; submargins smooth, steep; ears of left valve nearly equal, smooth, ears of right valve unequal, anterior ear with about 5 radiating, scabrous riblets; byssal notch one-half the length of the ear; posterior ear smooth. Alt., 16 mm.; lat., 16 mm.; diam., about 5 mm. Locality.— Crocus Bay, Anguilla, stations 6894 (type), 6893, 6965, 6967, Vaughan. Geologic horizon.— Oligocene. Type.— U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 167084.» CHARLES WYTHE COOKE, 1919
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C. W. Cooke, 1919, plate 8.
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