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The lower valve of this species is less convex than in Pecten excavatus.

This find became known as the Pecten Beds.

The scallop Pecten has up to 100 millimetre-scale reflector eyes on the edge of its shell.

Two of the largest companies, Pecten, a Shell subsidiary, and Exxon Chemical, had been very cooperative, he said.

The generic name is derived from Latin Pecten (meaning comb) and murus (meaning wall).

Steven Hopper, general manager of Pecten do Brasil, expressed optimism that exploration and production would be opened to foreign companies.

The Scollop Shell (Pecten concentricus), used for card- racks and pin-cushions.

The logo or pecten's design was based on the sea shell Pecten Maximus, the giant scallop.

The Pecten Reef in the northeast section of the park is an above-ground exposure of the Monterey Formation, which dates back to the Miocene period.

During the Upper Domerian, another regression sets in leaving sandy limestones very rich in fossils (Pleuroceras spinatum, Pecten aequivalvis).

The species Flexopecten felipponei was originally described as Pecten (Chlamys) felipponei by W. H. Dall in 1922.

Much of the scientific understanding for evolution, paleoenvironments and paleoclimates during the Miocene period in Orange County is based on the specimens collected from the Pecten Reef.

There are six named ironstone seams which are, in order of deposition, the Osmotherly, Avicula, Raisdale, Two-foot, Pecten and Main Seams.

A few of the important fossils are: Waldheimia lagenalis, Pecten levis, Avicula echinata, Ostrea fiabelloides, Mycicites decurtatus, Echinobrissus clunicularis.

Initial attempts made at cultivation of Pecten novazelandiae in New Zealand were hampered by large levels of fouling by mussels and by competition from a largely successful natural fishery.

Production of oil, pumped largely by Elf-Serepca, a subsidiary of Elf-Aquitaine, and Pecten Cameroon, a subsidiary of Shell, peaked here at 9.2 million metric tons in 1985.

He was knighted in 1898 for assisting in the salvage of HMS Victorious, which had grounded and was pulled to safety by the Shell tanker SS Pecten.

Sur la structure et les rapports de la choroïde et de la rétine chez les mollusques du genre Pecten, in: Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris, Bd.

In the main production area near Dayr as Zawr, the Syrian Petroleum Company has established a joint operating company with the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Pecten, a Shell subsidiary, which has also attracted representatives of American service industries.

In the Sitakunda hills, the Boka Bil Shale Formation contains Ostrea digitalina, Ostrea gryphoides and numerous plates of Balanus (a type of Barnacles), fragments of Arca, Pecten, Trochus, Oliva and corals.

Pecten (includes the Great or King scallop, Pecten maximus, Japanese (sea) scallop, Pecten yessoensis, the New Zealand scallop, Pecten novaezealandiae, and the Ravenel or Round-rib scallop, Pecten raveneli)