Ficus geometra (Borson, 1825)

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34, pp. 75-104 : 98-100

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.17111/FragmPalHung.2017.34.75
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scientific name	Ficus geometra (Borson, 1825)
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Ficus geometra (Borson, 1825) View in CoL

(Figs 65–66)

1820–1825 Pyrula geometra – BORSON, p. 311.

1966 Pirula geometra Borson – STRAUSZ, p. 255, pl. 57, figs 1–3.

1973 Pirula geometra Borson – BORZA, pl. 2, fig. 9.

2004 Ficus geometra (Borson) – LANDAU et al., p. 79, pl. 8, fig. 3 (cum syn.).

2007 Ficus geometra (Borson) – PFISTER & WEGMÜLLER, p. 155, pl. 1, figs 21–23, pl. 2, figs 1–4.

Material – Seven specimens (SL 26–31); HNHM: INV.2017.695 ., six specimens in private collections.

Description – Ficiform shell, convex teleoconch whorls, last whorl constrict- ed at the base. Long, wide aperture, smooth outer lip, straight columella, long, slightly recurved siphonal canal. Reticulate sculpture with narrow primary spiral cords (more than 30 on last whorl) and one secondary cord in each interspace, and axial ribs as strong as the primaries.

Remarks – The species differs in morphology from F. condita and F. cingulata by regular reticulate sculpture.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: PMS ( Italy), NSB ( Denmark), Burdigalian: NSB ( Germany), Paratethys ( Switzerland), Eggenburgian: CP ( Slovakia), Badenian: CP ( Austria, Hungary, Poland, Romania), Tortonian: PMS ( Italy). For Pliocene range see VAN DINGENEN et al. (2016).