Ponderia bispinosa

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2019, Muricidae (Neogastropoda) from the Middle Eocene of the Hungarian Paleogene Basin, Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 36, pp. 31-51 : 45

Ponderia bispinosa (J. de C. Sowerby, 1823)

( Figs 26–27 )

1823 Murex bispinosus – J. DE C. SOWERBY, p. 15, pl. 416, fig. 2.

1865 Murex Caillati – DESHAYES, p. 316, pl. 87, figs 24–26.

1910–1913 Murex (Alipurpura) bispinosus (Sowerby) – COSSMANN & PISSARRO, pl. 35, fig. 169/6.

2011 Ponderia bispinosa (J. de C. Sowerby) – MERLE et al., textfig. 52/D–E, p. 484, pl. 120, figs 4–7, pl. 121, figs 1–5.

Material – IFSM: 62756 (1).

Remarks – A fragmentary specimen is illustrated on the website of the International Fossil Shell Museum as Ponderia caillati (www.fossilshells.nl/ hungeo40.html; download: 02.10.2019), it was collected by Rudi Hessel on the mine dump of the old brown coal mine of Dudar. The size (SL 31) and the general morphology agree well with that of the P. bispinosa material presented by MERLE et al. (2001). Murex caillati Deshayes is a junior synonym of M. bispinosus J. de C. Sowerby.

Distribution – Lutetian–Priabonian, NE Atlantic: Paris Basin ( France), Hampshire Basin ( England), North Sea Basin ( Germany), Alpine Tethys: Hungarian Paleogene Basin: Dudar.

Figures

Figs 26–27. Ponderia bispinosa (Sowerby), IFSM INV 62756, Dudar, SL 31. Fig. 26. Apertural view. – Fig. 27. Abapertural view (Photo: R. Hessel). – Fig. 28. Typhinae sp. indet., Coll. Vicián, Dudar, SL 12, abapertural view. – Fig. 29. Typhina sp., HNHM M.62.1218., Dudar, SL 18, abapertural view. – Figs 30–31. Nucellopsis dudariensis (Strausz), MGSH E.467, holotype of Cantharus (Pollia) dudariensis Strausz, Dudar, SL 11. – Fig. 30. Apertural view. – Fig. 31. Abapertural view. Scale bar: 5 mm