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Costa Rica Miocene — Oesson 



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bonal angle are smooth, beyond which on the posterior-dorsal 

 slope the ribs again become beaded as they approach the dorsal 

 margin; the interspaces on the right valve are wide, and on the 

 shell disk anterior to the umbonal angle they carry a fine, but 

 often faint interstitial thread; the intervals are otherwise smooth 

 or finely etched with concentric lines; hinge-lines straight with 

 numerous small, vertical teeth and a wide, smooth cardinal 

 area. 



Ivcngth 18, height 18, semi-diameter 9.5 mm. 



A smaller species than the following {Hi?idsi) and easily 

 distinguished by the interstitial thread of its right valve. It is 

 much less common than the other two species. 



Named for Dr. K. R. I^loyd, formerly of the United States 

 Geological Survey, and who was a member of the first Explora- 

 tion Part}^ of the Sinclair Oil Company in Panama and Costa 

 Rica. 



Gatiin Stage: Hill j, Banmia River. 



Zone 5, Red Cliff Cj^eek. 

 Coll. 7, Pumbri Creek. 



Area Hindsi, n. sp. Plate 24, figures 7-9 



Shell small or of medium size, cordiform and similiar in out- 

 line to the preceding species but larger; umbos high and wide, 

 and but slightly anterior to the middle; the left valve has about 

 26 strongly nodulated ribs, separated by interspaces of slightly 

 greater width; the first 9 or 10 ribs of the right valve are nodu- 

 lated, followed by smooth ones to the umbonal angle, beyond 

 which the remaining 7 become nodulated as they approach the 

 dorsal margin; interspaces wider than the ribs, smooth and 

 without any interstitial thread; hinge-line straight with numer- 

 ous, small vertical teeth and a wide, smooth cardinal area; on 

 some shells the ligamental area may carr}^ one or two, small 

 diamond-shaped grooves. 



Length 24, height 25, semi-diameter 14 mm. 



A much larger species than the Lloydi and without any in- 



