Lautoconus pyrula ( Brocchi, 1814 )

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 : 20-21

Lautoconus pyrula ( Brocchi, 1814)

(Figs 28–30)

1814 Conus pyrula – BROCCHI, p. 288, pl. 2, fig. 8.

1879 Conus (Chelyconus) Sturi nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 41, pl. 5, figs 9–10.

2014 Lautoconus pyrula (Brocchi) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 71, figs 62–65 (cum syn.).

Material – 13 specimens – Coşteiu: M 59.1926.; Lăpugiu: M 59.1847., 60.8287.A-B., 60.8289.H., 60.8316.E-F., 60.8317.C., 60.8345.G-H., 60.8931., 60.8948., 60.10153.

Description – SL: 23–37. Spire of moderate height, outline sigmoid. Apex elevated, spiral whorls smooth. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl ventricosely conical, outline slightly sigmoid, smooth with fine incised grooves at the anterior end. Subsutural flexure slightly curved, nearly diagonal.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Atlantic ( Portugal, Spain), Paratethys ( Austria, Bosnia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia), Mediterranean ( Greece, Italy, Turkey).