Palaeoalvania, 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 : 92

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4663169
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EB87C3-860F-6B29-FDFD-8DECFE53FC6D
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Palaeoalvania
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

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.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Heterostropha
Family	Elasmonematidae

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