Kalloconus daciae ( 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 : 14

Kalloconus daciae ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879)

(Figs 4–5, 16–18)

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

2013 Monteiroconus daciae (Hoernes et Auinger) – LANDAU et al., p. 242, pl. 38, fig. 7, pl. 39, fig. 1, pl. 41, fig. 11, pl. 42, fig. 5, pl. 78, fig. 8, pl. 81, fig. 6 (cum syn.).

2014 Lithoconus planospira (Erünal-Erentöz) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 75, fig. 41 (cum syn.).

Material – 7 specimens – Coşteiu: M 60.10107., 60.10170.; Lăpugiu: M 60.8275., 60.8278.A., 60.8357.A-B., 62.6019.

Description – SL: 30–80. Spire low to flattened, apex pointed. Spiral whorls slightly concave, striate. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl conical, outline straight, smooth with fine ridges at the base. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – The validity of the taxon was recently dealt with by LANDAU et al. (2013), as well as Conus (Lithoconus) planospira (Erünal-Erentöz, 1958) was regarded as a synonym of K. daciae . The species differs from K. berghausi in striate spiral whorls. Both K. daciae and K. hungaricus that were earlier interpreted as synonyms of K. berghausi by KOVÁCS & VICIÁN (2014) occurred in the Letkés assemblage (Börzsöny Mts, N Hungary).

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Atlantic ( France), North Sea ( Belgium), Paratethys ( Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania,? Slovakia), Mediterranean ( Greece, Italy, Turkey).