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Kenleyia pachycerata

Kenleya pachycerata Cookson and Eisenack, 1965

Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1965, pl.17, fig.3
Locus typicus: Dartmoor, SW Victoria
Stratum typicum: Paleocene

Original description: Cookson and Eisenack, 1965, p.136
Shell oval or nearly circular in outline, usually flattened; apical and antapical horns and the two smaller projections, one on either side of them, short, broadish and blunt. Girdle frequently clearly outlined. Wall of shell thick, the outer layer closely granular. Archeopyle prominent in favourably presented examples, trapezoid.
Dimensions: Holotype--overall length c. 94 Ám, overall width c. 90 Ám; shell c. 80 x 76 Ám. Range--overall length c. 85-102 Ám, overall width c. 70-76 Ám.
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