Plagioconus elongatus ( Borson, 1820 )

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 : 24

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scientific name	Plagioconus elongatus ( Borson, 1820 )
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Plagioconus elongatus ( Borson, 1820)

(Figs 44–45)

1820 Conus Elongatus – BORSON, p. 198, pl. 1, fig. 4.

1856 Conus Haueri Partsch – HÖRNES, p. 34, pl. 4, fig. 4 only.

1972 Conus elongatus Borson – DAVOLI, p. 105, tab. 12, text-fig. 25, pl. 6, figs 18–20, 22–24.

2006 Conus (Leptoconus) elongatus Borson – BAŁUK, p. 216, pl. 16, fig. 8.

Material: 1 specimen – Coşteiu: M 60.7860.

Description – SL: 86.5. Spire of moderate height, outline slightly concave. Spiral whorls concave, smooth. Suture deep. Shoulder broad, rounded. Body whorl elongate, outline straight, smooth with fine grooves on the lower third. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved, deep.

Remarks – P. extensus is a closely allied form, but differs in elevated, narrow, gradate spire with convex, angulate whorls.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Paratethys ( Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania).