Cryptoborsonia rugobela


Cryptoborsonia rugobela is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc, in the superfamily Conoidea, currently unassigned to a family. Dating to the Late Oligocene, fossils of the species have been found in Jan Juc Formation of the Port Phillip Basin in Victoria, Australia.

Description

In the original description, Powell described the species as follows:
The holotype measures in height and in diameter.

Taxonomy

The species was first described by A. W. B. Powell in 1944, in the same paper where he described the genus Cryptoborsonia. The holotype is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Distribution

C. rugobela has been found in the Jan Juc Formation of the Port Phillip Basin in Victoria, dating to the Late Oligocene. The type location for the species is Torquay, Victoria.