Jul 11
#3823 - Lentipecten hochstetteri
'Hochstetter's lens-scallop'
AKA Pseudamussium (Pecten) huttoni and Pseudamussium huttoni.
Originally described as Pecten hochstetteri by German palaeontologist Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel (1839 – 1904). Austro-Hungarian geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter collected a wide variety of fossils from New Zealand whilst on the Novara Expedition - the first scientific expedition of the Austrian Navy to circumnavigate the world.
A palm-sized smooth scallop and one of the most common fossil seashells from the limestone and greendsand deposits of 27-25myo, from around much of New Zealand.
Museum of the Vanished World, Duntroon, Aotearoa New Zealand.