Kyndalynia, 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

Kyndalynia n.gen.

Type species. Kyndalynia inflata n.sp.

Definition. A very small, turbiniform gastropod with rounded whorls; protoconch smooth, bulbous; whorls expand rapidly, widely phaneromphalous; ornament a prosocline to orthocline collabral cords with faint spiral threads.

Geological age. Middle or late Visean.

Etymology. Referring to the geographical name of the homestead where this genus occurs.

Remarks. Kyndalynia n.gen. is different in shell character from any other described Palaeozoic gastropods. The closest form is Eucochlis , but Kyndalynia has more inflated whorls and wider umbilicus.

Australian Carboniferous species. Kyndalynia inflata n.sp.