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Kenleyia leptocerata
Kenleyia leptocerata Cookson and Eisenack, 1965
Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1965, pl.17, fig.6
Locus typicus: Dartmoor, SW Victoria, Australia
Stratum typicum: Paleocene
Original description: Cookson and Eisenack, 1965, p.136
Shell oval, thin-walled, outer layer finely granular, girdle equatorial bordered by low, fibrillose ledges; apical horn short, broadish and blunt, antapical horn longer, tapering from base to apex, tip frequently upwardly curved. Accessory apical outgrowths clear in the holotype (Pl. 17, fig. 6) more often poorly developed or fibrillose as also are those of the antapex; fibrillose outgrowths may be present on other portions of the shell. Archeopyle large, trapezoid, straight-sided, extending from just behind the apex almost to the girdle.
Dimensions: Holotype--overall length c. 102 Ám, overall width c. 76 Ám; shell c. 78 x 62 Ám. Range--overall length c. 100-112 Ám, overall width c. 76-85 Ám; shell c. 70-82 Ám x 62-75 Ám; antapical horn c. 22 Ám long.
Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1965, pl.17, fig.6
Locus typicus: Dartmoor, SW Victoria, Australia
Stratum typicum: Paleocene
Original description: Cookson and Eisenack, 1965, p.136
Shell oval, thin-walled, outer layer finely granular, girdle equatorial bordered by low, fibrillose ledges; apical horn short, broadish and blunt, antapical horn longer, tapering from base to apex, tip frequently upwardly curved. Accessory apical outgrowths clear in the holotype (Pl. 17, fig. 6) more often poorly developed or fibrillose as also are those of the antapex; fibrillose outgrowths may be present on other portions of the shell. Archeopyle large, trapezoid, straight-sided, extending from just behind the apex almost to the girdle.
Dimensions: Holotype--overall length c. 102 Ám, overall width c. 76 Ám; shell c. 78 x 62 Ám. Range--overall length c. 100-112 Ám, overall width c. 76-85 Ám; shell c. 70-82 Ám x 62-75 Ám; antapical horn c. 22 Ám long.