Lautoconus rotundus ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879 )

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

Lautoconus rotundus ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879)

(Figs 31–32)

1879 Conus (Chelyconus) rotundus nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 50, pl. 6, fig. 8.

2014 Varioconus rotundus (Hoernes et Auinger) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 61, figs 16–19 (cum syn.).

Material – 5 specimens – Lăpugiu: M 59.2001., 60.8291.A-D.

Description – SL: 15–36. Spire moderately high, outline convex, apex projected. Spiral whorls convex, smooth, suture deep. Shoulder rounded to subangulate. Body whorl broadly and ventricosely conical, outline straight to slightly convex, smooth with fine spiral ridges at the anterior end. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved, shallow.

Remarks – The species is closely allied to L. bitorosus in morphology, so it is classified here within genus Lautoconus . L. bitorosus differs in shape of the body whorl and the shoulder. L. rotundus differs from Varioconus conoponderosus in lower and convex spire.

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