Ficus burdigalensis (Sowerby, 1824)

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34, pp. 75-104 : 97-98

Ficus burdigalensis (Sowerby, 1824)

(Figs 60–61)

1824 Pyrula Burdigalensis – SOWERBY, fig. 2.

1966 Pirula (Fulguroficus) burdigalensis Sowerby – STRAUSZ, p. 256, fig. 121.

2007 Ficus burdigalensis (Sowerby) – PFISTER & WEGMÜLLER, p. 153, pl. 1, figs 10–15 (cum syn.).

Material – Six specimens (SL 32–38); in private collections.

Description – Ficiform shell, moderately low spire, eroded protoconch, three shouldered teleoconch whorls, last whorl 92% of the total height. Long aperture, smooth outer lip, long siphonal canal. Spiral sculpture of numerous strong, narrow cords, two rows of spines on the spire, four rows of spines on the last whorl, axial sculpture of fine growth lines.

Remarks – F. burdigalensis differs in morphology from its Badenian congeners in characteristic rows of spines on the teleoconch whorls. The species is typical of the Early Miocene, its occurrence in the early Badenian is noteworthy.

Distribution – Aquitanian: NEA ( France), Burdigalian: NEA ( Portugal), Paratethys ( Switzerland), Eggenburgian-Karpatian: CP ( Austria, Hungary), Badenian: CP ( Hungary).