Lautoconus ventricosus ( Gmelin, 1791 )

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 : 21-22

Lautoconus ventricosus ( Gmelin, 1791)

( Figs 33–34 )

1791 Conus ventricosus – GMELIN, p. 3397.

2014 Lautoconus ventricosus (Gmelin) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 73, figs 70–72 (cum syn.).

Material – 6 specimens – Lăpugiu: M 59.2004.B., 60.9852.D., 60.10152., 68.601., 68.603., 68.605.C.

Description – SL: 25–42. Spire of moderate height, outline straight. Spiral whorls smooth. Shoulder angulate. Body whorl ventricosely conical, outline slightly convex, smooth with fine ridges at the base. Subsutural flexure nearly diagonal.

Remarks – The species is characterized by high level of intraspecific variability.

Distribution – Recent L. ventricosus occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean ( Portugal to Senegal). Middle Miocene records: North Sea ( Belgium), Paratethys ( Austria, Hungary, Romania), Mediterranean ( Italy).

Figures

Figs 33–34. Lautoconus ventricosus (Gmelin), M 60.10152., Lăpugiu, SL: 29, apertural and abapertural views, (1×). – Figs 35–36. Monteiroconus mercati (Brocchi), M 60.10198., Lăpugiu, SL: 50, apertural and abapertural views, (1×). – Figs 37–39. Monteiroconus mojsvari (Hoernes et Auin- ger), M 62.6027., Lăpugiu, SL: 88, apical, abapertural and apertural views, (1×)