Mauidrillia torquayensis

Mauidrillia torquayensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Horaiclavidae. Fossils of the species date to the late Oligocene 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.

Taxonomy

The species was first described by A.W.B. Powell in 1944. The holotype was collected from Torquay, Victoria, Australia at an unknown date prior to 1945, and is held by the Auckland War Memorial Museum. In 1981, D. C. Long theorised that the late Eocene species M. aldingensis was ancestral to M. torquayensis.

Distribution

This extinct marine species occurs in late Oligocene strata of the Port Phillip Basin of Victoria, including the Jan Juc Formation.