Aspa marginata ( Gmelin, 1791 )

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34, pp. 75-104 : 95

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.17111/FragmPalHung.2017.34.75
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scientific name	Aspa marginata ( Gmelin, 1791 )
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Aspa marginata ( Gmelin, 1791) View in CoL

(Figs 55–56)

1791 Buccinum marginatum – GMELIN, p. 3486.

1966 Bursa (Aspa) marginata depressa Grateloup – STRAUSZ, p. 251, pl. 29, figs 5–6, pl. 63, figs 14–18.

2013 Aspa marginata (Gmelin) – LANDAU et al., p. 131, pl. 19, fig. 9 (cum syn.).

Material – 160 specimens (SL 14–42); HNHM: INV 2017.687 About HNHM . (Fig. 55), INV 2017.688. (Fig. 56), INV 2017.689. (15) , 143 specimens in private collections.

Description – Ovate, dorsoventrally compressed shell, low spire, four teleoconch whorls, convex last whorl 85% of the total height. Ovate, denticulate aperture, straight, long anal canal, short, recurved siphonal canal, concave columella, thickened parietal callus, short, recurved fasciole. Spiral sculpture of fine cords, tubercles at the shoulder, axial sculpture of two varices per whorl.

Remarks – The species is widely distributed in the Badenian localities of Hungary, and it was abundant in the mollusc assemblage of Letkés.

Distribution – Burdigalian-Langhian: PMS ( Italy), Ottnangian: CP ( Germany), Karpatian: CP ( Austria), Badenian: CP ( Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine), Serravallian: PMS ( Turkey), Tortonian: NEA ( Portugal, France), PMS ( Italy). For Pliocene-Pleistocene range see LANDAU et al. (2013).