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Figure 80. t -Rythmias starri Jordan and Gilbert 1920, holotype, CAS 55602 (from color image provided by CAS); scale bar equals 
3 cm. 
Type Specimen : ^Rythmias starri Jordan and Gilbert 1920, holotype, CAS 55602 (SU 175, 46), nearly com¬ 
plete right counteipart 
Type Locality : Lompoc, Monterey Formation, Late Miocene, Santa Barbara County. 
Referred Specimens : From type locality: SU 22A and 43, whereabouts unknown. 
Referred Specimens in Jordan (1921a) : From type locality: five specimens with whereabouts unknown, SU 
(512, 43), SU 189, 219, 546, and 547. 
Referred Specimens in Jordan (1925) : Described a specimen from the type locality, but gave no specimen num¬ 
ber. 
Referred Specimens in Jordan (1927a) : SU 484 and SU 464, whereabouts unknown. 
Referred Specimens in David (1943) : From type locality: CAS 70032 (SU 702,47), partial right counterpart; 
CAS 70111 (SU 663, 49), right counterpart [originally refeired to f E. rhomalea by Jordan 1925]; 
55581 (SU 750,48), partial right and left counteiparts [originally referred to ^Plectrites classeni Jordan 
in Jordan and Gilbert 1920], 70033 (SU 52), partial left counteipart; SU (846, 50), partial left counter¬ 
part; also SU (637, 51) and SU 53, both with whereabouts unknown. 
From type locality: LACM (CIT) 10155, partial left counterpart; SBMNH 116 and 169 both with where¬ 
abouts unknown, and two uncatalogued specimens, one in a private collection and the other housed 
in the USC Zoology Department, whereabouts unknown. 
Rgf<^ He figured a specimen (no museum number ) from the USNM and 
only gave the locality as California Miocene. 
Remarks : David (1943) reassigned a specimen SU (512,43) referred to fRythmias starri by Jordan (1921a) to 
f R classeni (see above). 
f Rythmias gaviotae David 1943 
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Selected References 
^Rythmias gaviotae David 1943:141-142, text-fig. 27c, pi. 15, fig. 1. 
Type Specimen : t -Rythmias gaviotae David 1943, holotype, LACM (CIT) 10154, left counteipart 
Type Locality LACM (CIT) locality 364, mouth of Gaviota Canyon, Late Miocene, Santa Barbara County. 
Paratvpes : Numbers 20, right counterpart and 30 (a laige fragment) were in the collection of Dr. Ousdal. Both 
specimens were housed in the USC Geology Department, but their whereabouts are unknown. Plate 25, 
fig. 1 gives the specimen number as USC 212, the right counteipart of the holotype. 
Referred Specimens : None. 
