Cypraecassis cypraeiformis ( Borson, 1820 )

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34, pp. 75-104 : 80-82

Cypraecassis cypraeiformis ( Borson, 1820)

(Figs 12–13)

1820–1825 Cassis Cypraeiformis – BORSON, p. 229, pl. 1, fig. 20.

1966 Cypraecassis crumena cypraeiformis Borson – STRAUSZ, p. 246, pl. 64, figs 10–11.

2013 Cypraecassis cypraeiformis (Borson) – LANDAU et al., p. 124, pl. 17, fig. 5 (cum syn.).

Material – 27 specimens (SL 21–35); HNHM: INV 2017.668 . (Figs 12–13), INV 2017.669. (2) , 24 specimens in private collections.

Description – Ovate shell, low spire, four teleoconch whorls, slightly convex last whorl more than 80% of the total height, constricted at the base. Narrow, elongate aperture, denticulate outer lip thickened by labral varix, short, narrow siphonal canal, short, recurved fasciole. Smooth shell with axial sculpture of fine growth lines.

Remarks – Both the genus and the species was thoroughly discussed by LANDAU et al. (2004). C. cypraeiformis is widespred in the European Middle Miocene to Middle Pliocene, but it is a rare element of the mollusc assemblages.

Distribution – Burdigalian-Langhian: PMS ( Italy), Badenian: CP ( Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania), Serravallian: PMS ( Turkey), Tortonian: NEA ( Portugal), PMS ( Italy). For Pliocene range see LANDAU et al. (2013).