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Kimina minor Yoo 1994, n.sp.

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Kimina minor n.sp. PI. 17 figs 1-5

Description. Shell minute, moderately high spired, narrowly phaneromphalous. Protoconch of 1Vz whorls, simple, smooth apex rather flat; margin of protoconch with teleoconch sharp. Teleoconch of about 4 whorls, whorl profile convex; sculpture of weak, axial growth lines. Aperture almost circular; anterior and posterior corners slightly angled; lips thin, parietal inductura lacking.

Types. Holotype (F78487) and 2 paratypes (F78488 - 9).

Type locality. 150 m west of 'Marohn' homestead, 4 km south-west of Gundy, NSW (Locality 28).

Stratigraphic position. In bioclastic limestone, upper part of the Dangarfield Formation.

Additional material. 8 unfigured specimens from Swains Gully (Locality 25), 2 from 'Lorrina' (Locality 23) and 2 from Glenbawn (Locality 28).

Geographic distribution. Swains Gully to Glenbawn.

Geological age. Middle to late Tournaisian.

Remarks. This species resembles the other Kimina species in shell shape, but differs in having a simple protoconch.

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