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T.A. Darragh 
coiled with the axis of the shell. Posterior canal short, deeply 
incised, reflexed to left. Anterior canal deeply incised, with 
rounded sides, reflexed dorsally, supported laterally by short, 
narrow flanges. Aperture sinuous, slightly widened and sloping 
steeply inwards before anterior canal; outer lip with 23-33 
teeth extending along entire lip, on some specimens becoming 
very weak posteriorly; inner lip with 3-11 teeth (generally 
fewer than 10) present on anterior third of lip. Fossula well 
developed, broad, relatively deeply depressed, bounded 
anteriorly by weak terminal ridge. 
Dimensions. 
L 
W 
H 
LT 
CT 
Holotype P14514 
101 
60 
52 
33 
10 
Paratype P304417 
81 
47 
42 
26 
7 
Paratype P304418 
79 
51 
45 
24 
8 
incised, sides rounded, reflexed dorsally, supported by very 
thick lateral flanges extending from base. Aperture somewhat 
sinuous, narrow; outer lip with 24-32 teeth, markedly 
decreasing in strength at posterior two-thirds. Columella with 
9-29 weak, short teeth, present on anterior two-thirds. Fossula 
weakly depressed, subcircular, bounded anteriorly by weak 
terminal ridge. Dorsum coarsely dimpled on some specimens. 
Dimensions. 
L 
W 
H 
LT 
CT 
Holotype SAM 
T822 
102 
64 
49 
29 
8 
Figured specimen 
P13374 
96 
60 
45 
32 
11 topotype 
Figured specimen 
P3044471 
106 
63 
49 
23+ 
14 Curlewis 
Type locality. Lower bed, Table Cape, Wynyard, Tasmania, (i.e. 
PL3028 lower bed in cliff between Fossil Bluff and 1.5 km 
northwest towards Table Cape, Wynyard, Tasmania, Table 
Cape 930630). Freestone Cove Sandstone, Early Miocene, 
early Longfordian. 
Type material. Holotype P14514, purchased R.N. Atkinson, 8 
May 1911; paratypes P304417-8, purchased R.N. Atkinson, 15 
January 1910. 
Time range. Longfordian, Early Miocene 
Occurrence and material. Table Cape (P2644, P14618, P2766- 
2770, P14595-6, P304417, P304449-50, 11 specimens); 
Crassatella bed, Fossil Bluff (P304440, one specimen); lower 
bed, Table Cape (P308708, P304431, P304433, seven specimens). 
Remarks. This species has been mistaken for Zoila platypyga 
(McCoy) and recorded as such in lists of fossils from Table 
Cape published by Johnston (1888, p. 262) and Pritchard (1896, 
p. 106). It probably evolved from Z. glomerabilis sp. nov., from 
which it differs by being pyriform with a tapering anterior 
rather than being globose. Zoila glomerabilis has a uniformly 
rounded dorsum, whereas Z. dolichorhyncha sp. nov. has a 
dorsum humped posteriorly. 
Etymology. Greek, dolichos, long; rhynchos, snout. 
Zoila mulderi (Tate, 1892) 
Figures 9A-B, 10A-F 
Cypraea mulderi Tate, 1892, pi. 9, fig. 2.— Tate, 1893, p. 316 
(description). 
Gistortia (Palliocypraea) mulderi (Tate).— Vredenburg, 1927, p. 
60. 
Zoila (Zoila) mulderi (Tate).— Schilder, 1935, p. 337. 
Zoila (Gigantocypraea) mulderi (Tate).— Wilson and Clarkson, 
2004:52, pi. 56. 
Description. Shell solid, of medium to large size for genus, 
subglobose, covered with glaze. Spire scarcely visible, covered 
with thick callus. Posterior canal wide, sides rounded, deeply 
notched dorsally, sides extended posteriorly into prominent 
thick flanges extending from base. Anterior canal deeply 
Type locality. ‘In a well sinking at Belmont’. A note by Mulder, 
dated 1891, with a photograph of the specimen sent to Professor 
Tate (i.e. the holotype), states that only two specimens were 
known, one in Mulder’s possession (i.e. P13374) and the other 
sent to Tate. They were ‘taken from the bottom of a shaft about 
60 feet below the surface. The shaft was sunk at Belmont near 
Geelong’. The shaft was sunk in about 1891 in an effort to find 
fire clay in a paddock close to the junction of the Colac Road 
(now Princess Highway) and the Germantown (now Grovedale) 
Road (now Corio Street), probably in allotment 9, Parish of 
Barrabool. The site was described by Mulder (1897, p. 23). 
Type material. Holotype SAM T822, R. Tate collection. 
Figured specimen P13374, collected J.F. Mulder 1891, 
purchased 1921; figured specimen P3044471, collected F.A. 
Cudmore, 21 April 1940. 
Time range. Longfordian-Batesfordian, Early Miocene. 
Occurrence and material. Longfordian. Fishing Point Marl: 
PL3035 southeast of Fischers Point (P308770, one fragment). 
Batesfordian. Fyansford Formation: PL3040 Belmont 
Shaft (P13374, one specimen). Curlewis (P304416, P304447, 
P308743, four specimens and three fragments). 
Gellibrand Formation: PL3048 Bornong Road cutting 
(P304421-2, P308767, one specimen and two fragments); 
PL3163 Williams Road cutting (P310103, one fragment of 
anterior). 
Horizon unknown. Fishing Point Marl? ‘Cape Otway’ 
(probably Aire River) (P302701, one specimen). 
Fishing Point Marl: Fishing Point (P308769, one fragment). 
Remarks. The Bornong cutting specimens have the general 
shape of specimens from Belmont and Curlewis, but have some 
characters intermediate with Zoila platypyga (McCoy) in that 
the teeth are more strongly developed. The labral teeth extend 
along the entire lip and the columellar teeth are strongly 
developed ridges extending along the entire columella as in Z. 
platypyga. This suggests that Z. mulderi is ancestral to Z. 
platypyga. The specimen labelled Cape Otway probably came 
from the upper part of the Fishing Point Marl (Batesfordian) 
outcropping in the cliffs along the Aire River at Horden Vale. 
