Kalloconus hungaricus ( 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

Kalloconus hungaricus ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879)

(Figs 8–9, 19)

1879 Conus (Lithoconus) Hungaricus nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 29, pl. 2, fig. 6, pl. 4, fig. 1.

2013 Kalloconus hungaricus (Hoernes et Auinger) – LANDAU et al., p. 238, pl. 37, figs 9–10, pl. 38, fig. 1, pl. 41, fig. 8, pl. 42, fig. 2, pl. 81, fig. 2 (cum syn.).

Material – 8 specimens – Coşteiu: M 68.20.; Lăpugiu: M 60.8289.D-E., 60.8341., 60.8361.C., 60.8920., 60.8970., 60.10199.

Description – SL: 26–69. Spire flat to low, outline straight. Spiral whorls flat, striate. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl broadly and ventricosely conical, outline slightly convex, smooth with grooves at the base. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved, shallow.

Remarks – The validity of the species was recently treated in detail by LANDAU et al. (2013). K. hungaricus differs from K. berghausi in striate spiral whorls and in colour pattern.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Paratethys ( Austria, Hungary, Romania), Mediterranean ( Turkey).