Middle Permian (Roadian) gastropods from the Khao Khad Formation, Central Thailand: Implications for palaeogeography of the Indochina Terrane
Author
Ketwetsuriya, Chatchalerm
Author
Karapunar, Baran
Author
Charoentitirat, Thasinee
Author
Nützel, Al- Exander
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-04-17
4766
1
1
47
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4766.1.1
ed4d1bf6-284a-4898-952a-58943d5a3026
1175-5334
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urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1B5DA41-5035-4783-8D47-28857B6305AE
Holopea
? sp.
(
Fig. 8
)
Material.
Two specimens: ESKU-19-
LP
2, 3.
Dimensions (mm): ESKU-19-
LP
2: height =
c
. 3.8; width = 3.6. ESKU-19-
LP
3: height =
c
. 6.3; width = 4.8.
Description.
Turbiniform to naticiform, moderately high-spired shell consisting of three to four whorls (apex missing); whorls rapidly increasing strongly convex, rounded, embracing below periphery; whorl surface ornament- ed by prosocyrt, prosocline collabral ribs; ribs irregularly pace of unequal strength; suture impressed; base evenly convex; minutely phaneromphalous; aperture seemingly circular, columellar lip somewhat straight.
Remarks.
These two incomplete specimens with deep suture, rounded whorls that bear collabral axial ribs resemble the Ordovician genus
Holopea
which has never been reported from the Permian of
Thailand
. However, similar shell morphologies have been reported frequently from Palaeozoic and Mesozoic strata and were assigned to various other genera. For instance,
Coelostylina costata
Batten & Stoke, 1986
, a putative representative of the basically Mesozoic genus
Coelostylina
from the Early Triassic of the
U. S.
is quite similar to our specimens.
H
.
bacca
Pan & Erwin, 2002
(p. 13, fig. 8.5–8.11) from the Permian of South
China
resembles the present specimens the most in general features. The coiling direction of the protoconch is important for species assignment and it is slightly oblique to the axis in
H
.
bacca
. The coiling direction of the protoconch in the studied specimens is poorly preserved, therefore the species treated in open nomenclature.