Zamorapecten zamorensis (F. & H. Hodson in Hodson et al., 1927)
HODSON, F., H. K. HODSON & G. D. HARRIS. 1927. Some Venezuelan, and Caribbean mollusks. Bulletins of American Paleontology, 13 (49): 1-80, pls. 1-40. [p. 38, pl. 22, figs. 1, 3-6]
1927 Pecten (Amusium) zamorensis F. & H. Hodson in Hodson et al., 1927
F. Hodson, H. K. Hodson & G. D. Harris, 1927, plate 22.
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«Shell averages 40-50 mm. in altitude, is moderately convex and slightly oblique. The hinge line is a little less than a third of the length of the disc. The ears are smooth except for growth lines and demarked from the umbones by a low, steep ledge. The umbones carry about 18 low, narrow ribs, which extend some 10-15 mm. from the tip of the beaks before they disappear. The shell shows faint, concentric lines of growth. Internally, the distal half of the valve carries about 14 pairs of internal lirse, which extend about half-way from the margin toward the beak before they disappear; the young stages show no internal lirse; in the adult stage, the main interspaces between the pairs of lirae are about equal to or slightly greater than the distances between the constituent lirap which form a pair. The left valve is fragmentary or young in our collections, but seems to be similar to, but slightly flatter than, the right valve.
Age : Pliocene. Locality: District of Zamora, State of Falcon, locality number 1353.» FLOYD HODSON & HELEN K. HODSON, 1927
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