Naticopsis minuta Yoo, 1994
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Trochida
- family
- Anomphalidae
- genus
- Naticopsis
- species
- Naticopsis minuta
description
Description. Shell minute, globular, neritiform, anomphalous. Protoconch of about ll 1 z smooth whorls, apex bulbous. Teleoconch of about 211 z, convex whorls, suture with whorls adpressed, surface ornamented with fine collabral threads, whorl embracing much of previous whorl. Aperture convex, lenticular in shape; columella lip slightly thickened, arched; inner lip and outer lip thin. Types. Holotype (F 78463) and 1 figured paratype (F 78464). There are 50 unfigured additional specimens (F 78462) from the type locality. 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. Geographic distribution. Type locality only. Geological age. Middle or late Visean. Etymology. Derived from the Latin minutus meaning little, small. Remarks. This is a small shell with a thin callus, commonly occurring in the type locality.
Name
Bibliographic References
- Yoo, E. K. (1994). Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 46(1): 63-120.