Kalloconus fuscocingulatus ( Hörnes, 1856 )

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 : 14-16

Kalloconus fuscocingulatus ( Hörnes, 1856)

(Figs 6–7)

1856 Conus fusco-cingulatus Bronn – HÖRNES, p. 21, pl. 1, fig. 5.

2014 Dendroconus fuscocingulatus (Bronn in Hörnes) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 66, figs 43–46.

Material – 25 specimens – Coşteiu: M 60.9862.A-B., 60.10922.; Lăpugiu: M 59.2002., 60.7443.B., 60.7675.A., 60.8289.F-G., 60.8290.A-L., 60.8345.K-L., 60.8973.C., 60.10573., 60.10595.A.

Description – SL: 20–31.5. Spire of moderate height, outline concave. Spiral whorls smooth. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl ventricosely conical, outline convex, smooth with dense spiral grooves at the anterior end. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved. Colour pattern: fine, widely spaced spiral lines.

Remarks – The species shows slight variability of the shell-width. It differs from K. berghausi in narrower body whorl, while from the similar Varioconus steinabrunnensis in narrower spire and in rounded shoulder.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Paratethys ( Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia), Mediterranean ( Greece, Italy, Turkey).