Palaeoalvania n.gen.

Type species. Palaeoalvania talenti n.sp.

Definition. Shell minute, rather high-spired, narrowly phaneromphalous. Surface ornament of spiral cords and opisthociine growth lines. Protoconch deviated; aperture simple, circular.

Geological age. Late Tournaisian.

Remarks. Palaeoalvania is very similar to Kimina in shell and protoconch characters, but differs in having spiral cords.

Australian Carboniferous species. Palaeoalvania talenti n.sp.