#scallop

'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.

started a Stardew Valley cross-stitch project on a tote bag. i wanna fill it with my favorite items. first one is a scallop 🐚

Some interesting organisms attached themselves to the shell after it died, too, by the look of it - bryozoans on the inner surface, and I'm not sure what outside. I wonder where the shell could have settled, on such an exposed coastline, for such organisms to grow?

'chlamys' means cloak and used for many scallops, but I can't figure out what talo means. As the specific epithet suggests, it's endemic to New Zealand, and to the Chathams, down to a depth of about 40m.