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Beaks obtuse, anterior to the middle of the valve, directed forward, not 
well defined. Umbonal region not strongly marked. 
Ears unequal. Posterior ear wide-triangular, extending as far as the mar¬ 
gin of the shell, its limits undefined ; margin nearly straight; extremity rec¬ 
tangular. Anterior ear small, limited by a strong sulcus; margin concave; 
extremity obtuse. Byssal sinus in the left valve moderate; in the right 
valve well-marked. 
Test of right valve thin, marked by fine filiform radii, with much wider 
interspaces which are marked by finer rays; the same character continuing 
on the posterior ear, with more equal rays. The entire surface is marked 
by fine, close, concentric lines of growth, with lamellose elevations at unequal 
intervals. 
Hinge-ligament marked by several parallel grooves. 
A right valve measures approximately 35 mm. in length, and 29 mm. in 
height. 
In general form this species resembles P. conspectus , but is proportionally 
longer, and the surface markings are different. 
Formation and localities. In the Hamilton group near Cardiff, Onondaga 
county, and from a bowlder of Hamilton shale at Pine Yalley, Chemung 
county, N. Y. 
Pterinopecten intermedius, n. sp. 
PLATE XVII, FIG. 19; and PLATE LXXXUI, FIGS. 4, 5. 
Pterinopecten conspectus, in part, Hall. Pal. N. Y., vol. v, pt. 1. Plates and Explanations: PI. 17, fig. 19, 
Jan., 1883. 
Shell of medium size, sub-rhomboidal, oblique; length one-fourth greater than 
the height; margins regularly rounded, more convex on the post-basal side. 
Left valve convex, greatest convexity below the umbo. Right valve 
unknown. 
Hinge-line straight, somewhat anterior; length greater than the length of 
the valve. 
