Conus fusellinus
(Suter, 1917)
Description.
Shell fairly large, ovate bicome, with a rather short
conoidal spire and large body-whorl.
Sculpture cannot be described, as two cast only are available. Spire conoidal, its height about two-sevenths the
height of the aperture, angle about 85°. Whorls 7 to 8, rather slowly
increasing, spire-whorls angled at the periphery; body-whorl large, gradually
tapering towards the base, with a narrow convex band at the suture, and a
slight excavation below it. Aperture oblique, high and narrow, somewhat widened
below,the margins subparallel.
Height 37 mm.; diameter 25 mm. (Holotype; a cast with
nearly half of the body-whorl lost).
Height 55 mm.; diameter 23 mm. (a much damaged
paratype).
Holotype in the collection of the New Zealand
Geological Survey.
Miocene
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Plate XII Fig.
27 Holotype mm. 37 x 25 Miocene Mokihinui - New
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