Maoritomella equispiralis
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| Maoritomella equispiralis Temporal range: | |
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| Holotype from Auckland War Memorial Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Maoritomella |
| Species: | †M. equispiralis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Maoritomella equispiralis A. W. B. Powell, 1944 | |
Maoritomella equispiralis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc, in the family Borsoniidae.[1] Fossils of the species date to the late Oligocene, and are found in the strata of the Port Phillip Basin of Victoria, Australia.
In the original description, Powell described the species as follows:
Shell slender, with lightly convex whorls; spire outlines almost straight; no peripheral carina. Spiral cords strong, more or less of equal development, 4 to 5 on early whorls, 6 from penultimate onward. About 25 spirals on body-whorl from suture to anterior end. Axial threads crowd the interspaces and actually cross and cancellate the weaker spirals.[2]
The holotype of the species measures 12.5 mm (0.49 in) in length and has a diameter of 4.2 mm (0.17 in).[2]
