Lautoconus eschewegi

Kovács, Zoltán & Balázs, Péter, 2015, Conidae (Neogastropoda) assemblage from the Middle Miocene of the Făget Basin (Romania) in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 32, pp. 11-48 : 18-20

Lautoconus eschewegi ( da Costa, 1866)

(Figs 22–25)

1866 Conus Eschewegi – DA COSTA, p. 29, pl. 9, figs 18–23.

2014 Lautoconus belus (d’Orbigny) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 68, figs 4, 53–55.

2014 Lautoconus eschewegi (da Costa) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 70, figs 7, 56–61 (cum syn.).

Material – 13specimens – Lăpugiu: M 60.7675.F-G., 60.8316.G., 60.8337.G., 60.8339.E., P., 60.8345.M-Q., U-V.; Nemeşeşti: M 60.8118A.

Description – SL: 17–44. Spire narrow, low, outline convex to slightly concave. Spiral whorls smooth, convex. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl ventricosely conical, outline sigmoid, smooth with fine ridges at the base. Colour pattern consists of spiral rows of thin, widely spaced dashes. Subsutural flexure nearly diagonal.

Remarks – The species shows moderate variability in growth of the spire. Varioconus clavatulus differs in much higher spire, in weakly developed siphonal bend, and in asymmetrically curved subsutural flexure.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Atlantic (Isles of Azores, Portugal, Spain), Paratethys ( Hungary, Romania), Mediterranean ( Italy, Morocco, Turkey).