Timbellus barattus ( De Gregorio, 1895 )

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2019, Muricidae (Neogastropoda) from the Middle Eocene of the Hungarian Paleogene Basin, Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 36, pp. 31-51 : 34-35

Timbellus barattus ( De Gregorio, 1895)

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1895 Murex barattus De Gregorio – DE GREGORIO, p. 10, pl. 1, fig. 14.

2011 Timbellus barattus (De Gregorio) – MERLE et al., p. 444, pl. 100, figs 1–2.

Material – Coll. Gurdon (1 specimen).

Remarks – The specimen figured here is very close in morphology to the T. barattus material presented by MERLE et al. (2011, pl. 100, fig. 1). The species differs from other Middle Eocene Timbellus by rounded wide ovate aperture and straight siphonal canal. The presence in the Upper Lutetian deposits of Dudar extends both the geographic and the stratigraphic ranges of T. barattus . The species is a new record in the HPB.

Distribution – Lutetian, Hungarian Paleogene Basin: Dudar. Priabonian, NE Atlantic: Aquitanian Basin ( France). Rupelian, Alpine Tethys: Bassano (N Italy).

Figures

Fig 2. Timbellus barattus (De Gregorio), Coll. Gurdon, Dudar, SL 28, apertural view. – Figs 3–7. Timbellus micropterus (Deshayes). – Figs 3–4. Coll. Vicián, Gánt, SL 22. – Fig. 3. Apertural view. – Fig. 4. Abapertural view. – Fig. 5. HNHM INV 2020.22., Tés, SL 13, lateral view. – Figs 6–7. Coll. Gurdon, Dudar, SL 26. – Fig. 6. Apertural view. – Fig. 7. Abapertural view. Scale bar: 5 mm