Comitas pseudoclarae

Comitas pseudoclarae is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae. Fossils of the species date to the late Oligocene, and occurs in the strata of the Port Phillip Basin of Victoria, Australia.

Description

In the original description, Powell described the species as follows:
The holotype of the species measures in height and in diameter. It can be distinguished from other Australian fossil Comitas species due to the number of axial ribs, protoconch details and relative size.

Taxonomy

The species was first described by A.W.B. Powell in 1944. The holotype was collected from Torquay, Victoria, at an unknown date prior to 1944, and is held by the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Distribution

This extinct marine species dates to the late Oligocene, and occurs in the strata of the Port Phillip Basin of Victoria, Australia, from the Jan Juc Formation.