Kyndalynia inflata, Yoo, 1994

Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1), pp. 63-120 : 90

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4657477

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EB87C3-8609-6B2F-FDD3-86FCF935FA60

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scientific name

Kyndalynia inflata
status

sp. nov.

Kyndalynia inflata n.sp.

PI. 12 figs 6-11

Description. Shell minute, cyrtoconoidal, widely phaneromphalous. Protoconch of 1Y2 smooth whorls with slightly deviated bulbous apex, boundary with teleoconch sharp. Teleoconch with first whorl with fine growth line, followed by 2Y2 rounded whorls with evenly spaced collabral riblets with about 32 in the last whorl, spire outline very convex, suture impressed. Aperture circular, lips slightly thickened, with outer lip prosoc1ine.

Types. Holotype ( F78440 View Materials ) and 4 figured paratypes ( F78441 View Materials -3). There are 14 unfigured additional specimens ( F78444 View Materials ) 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 inflatus meaning swollen; referring to inflated whorls.

Remarks. This species is characterised by having very inflated whorl profile. This is relatively rare in the type locality. No other Australian form has so far been referred to this genus.

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