Holotype ZPAL Ga.9/278 from the Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) of Wąwał in lateral and apical view.

Diagnoza

Shell broadly cone-shaped, 1.47 times as high as broad. Protoconch highly medioaxial, ornamented by abapical axial folds. Teleoconch starting with two spiral ribs. Lower rib becoming keel on second teleoconch whorl. On second and third teleoconch whorls, two secondary spiral ribs appearing. Spiral ribs crossed by weakly opisthocytic axial ribs (95–100 ribs per whorl). At intersections, blunt nodes appearing. Surface of teleoconch covered by spiral microornamentation.

Porównanie

The most similar to C. calloviensis Gründel, 1997 but the latter differs in the stable number of spiral ribs during ontogeny. From C. microstriata and C. squiresi differs in a much stronger spiral keel. C. kieli differs from C. saulae by the distinct nodes on the intersections of the axial and spiral ribs and the more sparsely distributed axial ribs.

Autekologia

Występowanie geograficzne

Only in type locality.

Zasięg czasowy

Saynoceras verrucosum Zone, Late Valanginian (Early Cretaceous).

Materiały muzealne

Only one shell.

Literatura

Kaim, A. 2004. The evolution of conch ontogeny in Mesozoic open sea gastropods. Palaeontologia Polonica 62, 3–183.