Pakiluta

Merle, Didier, Pacaud, Jean-Michel, Métais, Grégoire, Bartolini, Annachiara, Lashari, Rafiq A., Brohi, Imdad A., Solangi, Sarfraz H., Marivaux, Laurent & Welcomme, Jean-Loup, 2014, Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography, Zootaxa 3826 (1), pp. 101-138 : 130

Genus Pakiluta gen. nov.

Type species. Pakiluta solangii nov. sp. Early Eocene, Lakhra Formation (Sindh, Pakistan).

Etymology. From Paki , the two first syllables of Pakistan and luta, the two last syllables of Voluta . Gender feminine.

Included species. The type species only.

Diagnosis. Shell solid, with coeloconoid spire. Five early teleoconch whorls convex and elongate, followed by shorter whorls. Last whorl moderately wide, convex posteriorly, almost straight in its median part, slightly excavated anteriorly. Axial sculpture of numerous (20–40) weak, orthocline ridges on spire, disappearing progressively on last whorls. Spiral sculpture almost absent. Outer lip and parietal callus thin. Four strong, oblique columellar folds.