Plagioconus marii ( Sacco, 1893 )

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 : 26

Plagioconus marii ( Sacco, 1893)

( Figs 50–51 )

1893 Conus (Chelyconus) Marii – SACCO, p. 62, pl. 6, fig. 1; varieties: fusulopupoides, ovatopupoides, digitiformis, asparagispira, perfusulospira, clavatoidea, subconicospira, medioventrosa, subpileospira, ovatobrevis, pileospira, mamillatospira: p. 62–64, pl. 6, figs 2, 4–8, 10–15.

2014 Plagioconus marii (Sacco) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 81, figs 101–105, 108 (cum syn.).

Material – 1 specimen – Coşteiu: M 60.10096.

Description – SL: 66. Spire elevated, outline convex. Spiral whorls convex, smooth. Suture deep. Shoulder broad, rounded. Body whorl elongate, ventricosely conical, smooth with ridges at the base. Aperture narrow, straight. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – The species shows high level of intraspecific variability. P. puschi differs in lower and narrower spire.

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

Figures

Figs 50–51. Plagioconus marii (Sacco), M 60.10096., Coşteiu, SL: 61, abapertural and apertural views, (1×). – Figs 52–53. Plagioconus puschi (Michelotti), M 68.599.A., Lăpugiu, SL: 73, abapertural and apertural views, (1×). – Figs 54–57. Varioconus clavatulus (Orbigny): 54–55. M 60.10101., Coşteiu, SL: 71, abapertural and apertural views, (1×). 56–57. M 60.10114., Coşteiu, SL: 43, abapertural and apertural views, (1×)