Kalloconus berghausi ( Michelotti, 1847 )

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 : 13-14

Kalloconus berghausi ( Michelotti, 1847)

( Figs 2–3 , 10–11)

1847 Conus Berghausi – MICHELOTTI, p. 342, pl. 13, fig. 9.

1879 Conus (Dendroconus) Vaceki nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 22.

1879 Conus (Dendroconus) Voeslauensis nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 21, pl. 1, fig. 8, pl. 3, fig. 4.

2013 Kalloconus berghausi (Michelotti) – LANDAU et al., p. 236, pl. 37, figs 6–8, pl. 42, fig. 1, pl. 81, fig. 1 (cum syn.).

Material – 60 specimens – Coşteiu: M 60.8923., 60.8935., 60.8954., 60.8960., 60.9872., 60.9874. (30 mm), 60.9878.A., 60.9911.; Lăpugiu: M 60.7443.A., 60.8289.A-C., 60.8316.A-B.,60.8321.A-E., 60.8334.A-C.,60.8335.A-I., 60.8337.A., 60.8338.A., 60.8339.A-D., 60.8345.R-T., 60.8347.A., 60.8348.A-B., 60.8361.A- B., 60.8427.A-B., 60.8919.A-D., 60.8956., 60.8968.A-C., 60.8969.A., 60.8971., 60.9852.A., 60.10134., 60.10135., 60.10203., 62.5998.

Description – SL: 18–77.5. Spire low, outline concave to convex. Spiral whorls smooth. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl broadly conical, outline convex, smooth with fine ridges at the base. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved. Colour pattern: spiral rows of small dots.

Remarks – The taxon was recently revised by LANDAU et al. (2013). By the help of colour pattern analysis, the previous wide species concepts (see e.g. HALL 1964, BAŁUK 1997) were rejected, as well as taxonomic validity of some species was verified again (see below).

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Atlantic ( France), Paratethys ( Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine), Mediterranean ( Italy, Turkey).

Figures

Figs 2–3. Kalloconus berghausi (Michelotti), M 60.9874., Coşteiu, SL: 30, abapertural and apertural views, (1×). – Figs 4–5. Kalloconus daciae (Hoernes et Auinger), M 60.8357.A., Lăpugiu, SL: 35, abapertural and apertural views, (1×). – Figs 6–7. Kalloconus fuscocingulatus (Hörnes), M 59.2002., Lăpugiu, SL: 31.5, abapertural and apertural views, (1×). – Figs 8–9. Kalloconus hungaricus (Hoernes et Auinger), M 60.8970., Lăpugiu, SL: 40, abapertural and apertural views, (1×). – Figs 10–11. Kalloconus berghausi (Michelotti), M 62.5998., Lăpugiu, SL: 77.5, abapertural and apertural views, (1×)