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
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1
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journal article
22833
10.11646/zootaxa.4766.1.1
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Naticopsis
cf.
heshanensis
Pan & Erwin, 2002
(
Fig. 20
K–L)
cf.
Naticopsis
(
Naticopsis
)
heshanensis
Pan & Erwin, 2002: 21
, fig. 11.12–11.17
.
Material.
One specimen: ESKU-19-
LP
44.
Dimensions (mm): ESKU-19-
LP
44: height = 19.0; width = 16.2; apical angle = 124
º
.
Description.
Subglobose shell, very low-spired, medium-sized, comprising
c
. 3.5 whorls; apex obtuse; whorls rapidly increasing; body-whorl large and inflated, with flatly convex periphery; whorls embracing on preceding whorl, well above periphery; whorl surface with numerous fine, prosocyrt, distinct growth lines; suture adpressed; base convex; aperture unknown.
Remarks.
This single globose shell with distinct, dense growth-lines resembles
Naticopsis
(
Naticopsis
)
heshanensis
Pan & Erwin, 2002
(p. 21, fig. 11.12–11.17) as reported from the Permian of
Guangxi
Provinces, South
China
, although the present specimen has a much lower spire than the
holotype
of
N
.
(
N
.)
heshanensis
. The Permian species
N
.
permica
Netchaev, 1894
as illustrated by
Mazaev (2015
, p. 959, pl. 33, figs 1–5) from the Middle Permian of Volga Region,
Russia
is similar but has a higher spire, more convex whorls and less distinct growth lines.