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genus

Liratomina Powell, 1942

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Turridae - Turrids

Description

Shell of moderate size, 30-35 mm., ovate-biconic with a moderately tall spire and a long body-whorl, gradually tapered to a short broadly notched anterior canal. Protoconch large, smooth, rounded, of 1 1/2 whorls, followed by a half-whorl of fine, closely spaced, brephic axials. Shoulder slope deeply concave, but without subsutural margining. Sinus a broad shallow insinuation, occupying most of the shoulder slope. Adult sculpture of crisp spirals and axials of varying strength. Range — Oligocene of Victoria and. Tasmania, Miocene of Victoria and lower mid Pliocene of South Australia.

Sources

Powell, A.W.B. : The Molluscan Families Speightiidae and Turridae. 1966.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Paleobiology Database [11279]

Paleobiology Database [https://paleobiodb.org/] [as Liratomina]
Data retrieved on: 30 January 2016
EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1046387]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Liratomina Powell, 1942]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

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Explanations

extinct taxon