Major range extension of the genus Eucypraedia Schilder, 1939 with the discovery of a new species from the middle Miocene of South Australia

While the genus Eucypraedia Schilder, 1939 is well known in Europe, and has been reported in the Americas with the species Eucypraedia multicarinata Dall, 1890, claimed to have the widest known distribution for a Paleogene gastropod, from the Gulf of Mexico to Peru, a new species belonging to this genus has just been discovered in Southern Australia. Eucypraedia hawkei n. sp., from the Cadell Marl sediments near Adelaide, is a large species that meets all the diagnostic criteria for being assigned to this genus. Its existence therefore considerably extends the range of Eucypraedia, both geographically and temporally, since it had never before been observed in Australia or in the Miocene.