Varioconus mucronatolaevis ( 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 : 30

Varioconus mucronatolaevis ( Sacco, 1893)

(Figs 64–65)

1893 Conus (Chelyconus) mucronatolaevis – SACCO, p. 66, pl. 6, fig. 26, varieties: fusoelegans, longovuloides, laevispira, taurobiconica, glandispira, globospira, permamillata, conicangulata: p. 66–67, pl. 6, figs 27–34.

2014 Varioconus mucronatolaevis (Sacco) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 85, figs 121–124 (cum syn.).

Materials – 4 specimens – Lăpugiu: M 60.8282.C-D., 68.599.C., 68.602.

Description – SL: 28–30. Spire of moderate height, outline convex, apex projected. Spiral whorls smooth to finely striate. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl ventricosely conical, outline straight, smooth with fine ridges at the base. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – The species is characterized by intraspecific variability with moderate variety of development of the spire. It differs from Plagioconus marii in lower and wider spire.

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