This oyster occurs very commonly in the oyster beds of the Navesink formation at Big Brook. from Exogyra by its non-spiral nature and lack of ornamentation. Size: Pycnodonte can be between 2 to 10 cm (about . ... Some older sources label the genera of this oyster as Gryphaea.
For chemical reactions where the free energy of the reactants is much greater than the free energy of the products (DGo' < 0), the reaction proceeds spontaneously and the net result is a large ratio of product to reactant (large Keq).
