Bothriembryon kremnobates Kendrick, 2005

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Whisson, Corey S., 2012, Annotated type catalogue of Bothriembryon (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in Australian museums, with a compilation of types in other museums, ZooKeys 194, pp. 41-80 : 49

Bothriembryon kremnobates Kendrick, 2005 Figs 3I-J

Bothriembryon kremnobates Kendrick 2005: 310, fig. 1A.

Type locality.

"Roe Plains, Madura district, Western Australia (...) Late Pliocene".

Label.

"Roe Plains, Madura district, / W.A. Pit 0.5 km N of Hampton Microwave / Repeater Tower. Carbonate sand with PTO / large shells; 0.7-1.1 m / above base of formation / (Roe Calcarenite). Note matrix / within shell is same as Roe / Calcarenite", in Kendrick’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Shell height 21.5, max. diameter 14.7 (mm)"; holotype H 21.5, D 14.7, W 5.4.

Type material.

WAM 81.847, holotype, V.A. Ryland and G.W. Kendrick leg., 29.ix-4.x.1980; WAM 81.1762, one paratype; WAM 81.1774, one paratype. Paratypes V.A. Ryland, G.W. and W.E. Kendrick leg., 20-23.ix.1976.

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon kremnobates Kendrick, 2005.

Figures

Figure 3. Fossil Bothriembryon species. A, B, F B. gardneri Kendrick, 1978, holotype, WAM 701603 a (H = 43.5); F sculpture on dorsal side of last whorl C-E B. consors Kendrick, 1978, holotype, WAM 72421 a (H = 30.0); E sculpture on dorsal side of last whorl G-H B. douglasi Kendrick, 1978, holotype, WAM 661036 a (H = 34.2) I-J B. kremnobates Kendrick, 2005, holotype, WAM 81.847 (H = 21.5) K-L B. ridei Kendrick, 1978, holotype, WAM 60.434 a (H = 36.6) M B. praecursor McMichael, 1968, holotype, CPC 6906 (H = 14.17) N B. gunnii (Sowerby II, 1845), holotype, NHMUK PI OR 96907 (H = 25.1).