Early Paleogene brackish-water molluscs from the Caballas Formation of the East Pisco Basin (Southern Peru)
Author
DeVries, Thomas J.
text
Journal of Natural History
2019
2018-12-17
53
25
1533
1584
journal article
24019
10.1080/00222933.2018.1524032
034ebcd9-efa7-416a-822c-b6aee0e57a1c
1464-5262
3670229
Genus
Rhinotamides
Olsson, 1944
Type
species:
Rhinotamides rudis
, 1944
, by monotypy. Late Campanian, northern
Peru
.
Remarks
Olsson (1944)
noted the presence of a columellar fold on
Tortuga
Formation specimens of
Rhinotamides rudis
Olsson, 1944
, but the fold is not evident in his figures nor in specimens collected from
Tortuga
by Steffen Kiel (written communication,
23 December 2017
). Specimens from the Caballas Formation also lack a columellar fold; the very short columella is terminated at its anterior end with a sharp keel that forms the posterior margin of the abaxially twisted anterior canal.