Kimina australis, 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 : 91

Kimina australis n.sp.

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.

Dimensions. H	W	PA	NW
Holotype ( F78513 ) 1.3 mm Paratypes ( F78511 )1.4 ( F78512 )1.3	0.8 mm 0.8 0.9	46° 43 50	4Y2 4Y2 4Y2

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.

Dimensions. H	W	PA	NW
Holotype ( F78487 ) 5.3 mm Paratypes ( F78488 )2.1 ( F78489 a)2.0 ( F78489 b)2.2	2.1 mm 1.2 1.3 1.3	30° 40 40 40	7 4Vz 5 5Y2

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.