Plagioconus puschi ( 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 : 26-27

Plagioconus puschi ( Michelotti, 1847)

(Figs 52–53)

1847 Conus Puschi – MICHELOTTI, p. 340, pl. 14, fig. 6.

2013 Plagioconus puschi (Michelotti) – LANDAU et al., p. 245, pl. 39, fig. 5, pl. 41, fig. 13, pl. 42, fig. 7, pl. 81, fig. 9 (cum syn.).

Material – 11 specimens – Coşteiu: M 60.9883., 60.9891., 60.9912.; Lăpugiu: M 60.8293.B., 60.8358.H., 60.8359.C., 60.8367.A-B., 68.599.A., 68.604.; Nemeşeşti: M 60.8136.

Description – SL: 40–71. Spire conical, moderately high, outline straight. Spiral whorls convex. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl narrowly conical, outline straight, smooth with fine ridges on the lower third. Subsutural flexure diagonal.

Remarks – The species differs from the closely allied forms ( P. elongatus , P. extensus , P.marii ) in growth of the spire, and in subsutural flexure.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Atlantic ( France, Portugal), Paratethys ( Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Serbia), Mediterranean ( Greece, Turkey).