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Kimina australis Yoo 1994, n.sp.

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Kimina australis n.sp.

PI. 19 figs 1-4

Description. Shell minute, high spired, smooth, thin, narrowly phaneromphalous. Protoconch of 11A smooth whorls, the apex slightly deviated hiding the first half whorl in side view. Teleoconch of up to 4 convex whorls, smooth except for very fine prosocline growth lines. Aperture simple, almost circular, with thin lips.

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Types. Holotype (F78513) and 2 figured paratypes (F78511 -2). There are 112 unfigured additional specimens (F78514).

Type locality. Behind 'Kyndalyn' homestead, 10 km south-west of Somerton, NSW (Locality 24).

Stratigraphic position. In base of oolitic limestone in the Kyndalyn Mudstone Member of the Merlewood Formation.

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Geographic distribution. Type locality only.

Geological range. Middle or late Visean.

Etymology. Derived from the Latin australis meaning southern.

Remarks. Differs from K. globosa n.sp. in having prosocline growth lines.

Notes

Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599

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Scientific name authorship
Yoo
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Vetigastropoda
Family
Elasmonematidae
Genus
Kimina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
n.sp.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Kimina , 1994