Varioconus pelagicus ( 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 : 32

Varioconus pelagicus ( Brocchi, 1814)

(Figs 71–74)

1814 Conus pelagicus – BROCCHI, p. 289, pl. 2, fig. 9.

1879 Conus (Chelyconus) Lapugyensis nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 42, pl. 1, fig. 9, pl. 5, fig. 8.

1879 Conus (Chelyconus) Mariae nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 49, pl. 6, fig. 7.

2013 Varioconus pelagicus (Brocchi) – LANDAU et al., p. 247, pl. 39, figs 6–7, pl. 41, fig. 14, pl. 42, fig. 8, pl. 82, figs 1–2 (cum syn.).

Material – 8 specimens – Coşteiu: M 68.17.; Lăpugiu: M 60.8281.A., 60.8296., 60.8314.A., 60.8928., 60.8939., 60.10182., 60.10201.

Description – SL: 22.5–64.5. Spire of moderate height, outline slightly convex to straight. Spiral whorls smooth to striate. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl conical, outline sigmoid, ornamented with fine spiral ridges on the lower half. Well-developed siphonal fasciole. Subsutural flexure nearly diagonal.

Remarks – The species shows variability of growth of the spire, and of length and width of the body whorl.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Atlantic ( France), Paratethys ( Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine), Mediterranean ( Greece, Turkey).