Austrotoma janjukiensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc, in the family Pseudomelatomidae. Fossils of the species date to the early Miocene 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 has a height of , and a diameter of .
Taxonomy
The species was first described by A. W. B. Powell in 1944. The holotype was collected prior to 1944 from Torquay, Victoria, Australia. It is a part of the H. J. Finlay Collection, which is held by the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Distribution
This extinct marine species occurs in early Miocene strata of the Port Phillip Basin of Victoria, Australia, including the Puebla Formation.
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