Eudolium subintermedium (d’Orbigny, 1852)

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34, pp. 75-104 : 77-78

Eudolium subintermedium (d’Orbigny, 1852)

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1852 Cassis subintermedia – D’ORBIGNY, p. 90.

1966 Cassidaria cingulifera Hoernes & Auinger – STRAUSZ, p. 241, fig. 116.

1969 b Cassidaria cingulifera Hoernes et Auinger – CSEPREGHY-MEZNERICS, pl. 7, fig. 2.

2009 Eudolium subintermedium (d’Orbigny) – LANDAU et al., p. 63, pl. 1, figs 1–6 (cum syn.).

Material – One fragmentary specimen (SL 20); HNHM: INV 2017.663. ( Figs 2–3 ) .

Description – Globose shell, low spire, two convex teleoconch whorls preserved, last whorl shouldered by a slightly nodulose primary cord, constricted at the base, ovate aperture. Spiral sculpture of four narrow primary cords with three fine spiral threads in interspaces on the penultimate whorl, last whorl bears nine primary cords with secondary cords and threads in interspaces.

Remarks – The taxonomic revision of the species was accomplished by LANDAU et al. (2009), Cassidaria cingulifera was considered as a synonym of the E. subintermedium . The species is very rare in Hungarian localities. The subadult specimen figured here with weakly nodulose sculpture is closely allied in morphology to the specimen illustrated by HOERNES & AUINGER (1884, pl. 17, fig. 17, refigured by LANDAU et al. 2009, pl. 1, fig. 1).

Distribution – Badenian: CP ( Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania), Langhian: NEA ( France), Tortonian: PMS ( Italy). For Pliocene range see LANDAU et al. (2009).

Figures

Figs 2–3. Eudolium subintermedium (d’Orbigny), HNHM INV 2017.663., SL 20, MD 14 (1×), apertural and abapertural views. – Figs 4–5. Malea orbiculata (Brocchi), Coll. TH, SL 40, MD 27 (1×), abapertural and apertural views. – Figs 6–9. Cassis postmamillaris Sacco, HNHM INV 2017.664., SL 41, MD 31 (1×), lateral, apical, apertural and abapertural views. – Fig. 10. Galeodea echinophora (Linnaeus), Coll. TH, SL 48, MD 38 (1×), abapertural view. – Fig. 11. Echinophoria haueri (Hoernes et Auinger), HNHM INV 2017.666., SL 31, MD 23, abapertural view. – Figs 12– 13. Cypraecassis cypraeiformis (Borson), HNHM INV 2017.668., SL 33, MD 22 (1×), apertural and abapertural views.– Figs 14–17.Semicassis laevigata (Defrance).– 14–15. HNHMINV 2017.670., SL 42, MD 34 (1×), apertural and abapertural views. – 16–17. HNHM INV 2017.671., SL 33, MD 26 (1×), apertural and abapertural views