Kimina australis Yoo 1994, n.sp.
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Description
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.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4654599 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD2FFBB86126B34FFD88C74FF9AFF9B (URL)
Biodiversity
- 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