Varioconus conoponderosus ( Sacco, 1893 )

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 : 29

Varioconus conoponderosus ( Sacco, 1893)

( Figs 58–59 )

1893 Conus (Chelyconus) conoponderosus – SACCO, p. 75, pl. 7, fig. 22, varieties: conicissima, subpupoidea: p. 75–76, pl. 7, figs 23–24.

2014 Varioconus conoponderosus (Sacco) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 83, figs 111–115 (cum syn.).

Material – 9 specimens – Coşteiu: M 60.8952.; Lăpugiu: M 60.8290.M., 60.8311., 60.8312.A., 60.8337.C., 60.8338.C-D., 60.8930., 68.598.

Description – SL: 31–44. Spire of low to moderate height, outline slightly convex. Spiral whorls smooth. Shoulder rounded to subangulate. Body whorl conical, outline straight to slightly convex, smooth with pronounced growth lines, and with fine grooves at the base. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – The species is characterized by intraspecific variability ( DAVOLI 1972). V. ponderosus differs in more elevated spire.

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

Figures

Figs 58–59. Varioconus conoponderosus (Sacco), M 60.8952., Coşteiu, SL: 34, abapertural and apertural views,(1×). – Figs 60–63. Varioconus montisclavus (Sacco):60–61. M 68.599.C., Lăpugiu, SL: 37, abapertural and apertural views, (1×). 62–63. M 60.8301.D., Lăpugiu, SL: 35, apertural and abapertural views, (1×). – Figs 64–65. Varioconus mucronatolaevis (Sacco), M 60.8282.C., Lăpugiu, SL: 30, apertural and abapertural views, (1×). – Figs 66–68. Varioconus noe (Brocchi): 66–67. M 60.10156., Lăpugiu, SL: 50, apertural and abapertural views, (1×). 68. M 60.8358.E., Lăpugiu, SL: 60, abapertural view, (1x). – Figs 69–70. Varioconus olivaeformis (Hoernes et Auinger), M 60.8318.B., Lăpugiu, SL: 27, apertural and abapertural views, (1×). – Figs 71–72. Varioconus pe- lagicus (Brocchi), M 60.8928., Lăpugiu, SL: 49, abapertural and apertural views, (1×)