Monteiroconus mojsvari ( 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 : 22

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https://doi.org/10.17111/FragmPalHung.2015.32.11

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scientific name

Monteiroconus mojsvari ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879 )
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Monteiroconus mojsvari ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879) View in CoL

(Figs 37–39)

1879 Conus (Dendroconus) Mojsvari nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 18, pl. 3, fig. 2.

1973 Conus (Lithoconus) mercati miocaenicus Sacco – NICORICI & SAGATOVICI, p. 175, pl. 27, fig. 1.? 2001 Conus (Lithoconus) mercatti [sic] miocenicus Sacco – CHIRA & VOIA, pl. 2, fig. 3.

2013 Monteiroconus mojsvari (Hoernes et Auinger) – LANDAU et al., p. 243 (cum syn.).

Material – 1 specimen – Lăpugiu: M 62.6027.

Description – SL: 88. Spire low, outline slightly concave. Spiral whorls canaliculate, striate. Shoulder subangular. Body whorl conical, outline straight, smooth with fine ridges at the base. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – The validity of the taxon was recently verified by LANDAU et al. (2013). M. mercati differs from M. mojsvari in gradate spire with smooth whorls.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Conidae

Genus

Monteiroconus

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