Kalloconus steindachneri ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879 )

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 : 16-18

Kalloconus steindachneri ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879)

( Figs 12–15 )

1879 Conus (Dendroconus) Steindachneri nov. form. (= Hochstetteri in text) – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 24, pl. 3, fig. 3.

2014 Dendroconus steindachneri (Hoernes et Auinger) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 67, figs 47–49 (cum syn.).

Material – 29 specimens – Coşteiu:M 60.8949., 60.9872., 60.9892., 60.10113., 68.18.; Lăpugiu: M 60.7675.B-D., 60.8278.B., 60.8335.J., 60.8336.A-G., 60.8338.E- F., 60.8932.A., 60.8947., 60.8969.B., 60.8973.A., 60.9852.B., 60.10117.A., 60.10150., 60.10200., 64.222.; Nemeşeşti: M 60.8106.A.

Description – SL: 28–48. Spire of moderate height, outline straight. Spiral whorls smooth. Shoulder broad, rounded. Body whorl ventricosely conical, outline convex, smooth with grooves at the base. Subsutural flexure slightly curved, oblique.

Remarks – In this paper we follow the classification that was proposed by LANDAU et al. (2013) for the berghausi -group, so Dendroconus steindachneri is placed within genus Kalloconus herein. The species shows moderate variability in width of the shoulder. It is closely allied to K. berghausi but differs in more elevated and straight spire.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Paratethys ( Austria, Bosnia,? Croatia, Hungary, Romania,? Slovenia).

Figures

Figs 12–15. Kalloconus steindachneri (Hoernes et Auinger): 12–13. M 60.8949., Coşteiu, SL: 45, abapertural and apertural views, (1×). 14–15. M 60.9892., Coşteiu, SL: 43, abapertural and apertural views, (1×). – Figs 16–18. Kalloconus daciae (Hoernes et Auinger), M 62.6019., Lăpugiu, SL: 80, apertural, apical and abapertural views, (1×)