Guraleus adelaidensis

Guraleus adelaidensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc, in the family Mangeliidae. Fossils of the species date to middle Miocene strata of the St Vincent Basin of South Australia.

Description

In the original description, Powell described the species as follows:
The holotype of the species measures in length and has a diameter of. It is one of the smaller members of the genus Guraleus. The shell is fusiform, and the species can be distinguished due to there being ten axial costae on each whorl.

Taxonomy

The species was first described by A. W. B. Powell in 1944. The holotype was collected by W. Howchin and J.C. Verco in 1919 from the Metropolitan Abattoirs Bore in Adelaide, South Australia, at a depth of between. It is held in the collections of Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Distribution

This extinct marine species occurs in middle Miocene strata of the St Vincent Basin of South Australia, including the Dry Creek Sands.