Cymatiella tritonea ( Grateloup, 1847 )

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34, pp. 75-104 : 91-93

Cymatiella tritonea ( Grateloup, 1847)

(Figs 43–44)

1847 Murex tritoneum – GRATELOUP, pl. 29, fig. 23.

1966 Charonia (Sassia) parvula Michelotti – STRAUSZ, p. 250, pl. 30, fig. 9.

2009 Cymatiella tritonea (Grateloup) – LANDAU et al., p. 74, pl. 7, figs 4–9, pl. 10, fig. 3 (cum syn.).

Material – 21 specimens (SL 11–13); HNHM: INV 2017.683 . (5) , 16 specimens in private collections.

Description – Small, fusiform shell, elevated spire, teleoconch of five convex whorls, rounded last whorl, constricted at the base. Small, ovate aperture, denticulate outer lip thickened by labral varix, short siphonal canal and fasciole, columella with three folds. Spiral sculpture of cords, axial sculpture of rounded ribs with tubercles at the intersections, one or two varices per whorl.

Remarks – Early Miocene specimens from France and the Paratethys were revised by LANDAU et al. (2004, 2009), and Triton parvulum Michelotti , which had been frequently recorded from the Paratethys was regarded as a synonym of C. tritonea .

Distribution – Chattian-Burdigalian: NEA ( France), Burdigalian: PMS ( Italy), Karpatian: CP ( Austria), Badenian: CP ( Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia), Tortonian: PMS ( Italy).