Varioconus olivaeformis ( 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 : 30-32

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.17111/FragmPalHung.2015.32.11
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scientific name	Varioconus olivaeformis ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879 )
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Varioconus olivaeformis ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879)

(Figs 69–70)

1879 Conus (Chelyconus) olivaeformis nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 52, pl. 1, fig. 23. 2014 Varioconus olivaeformis (Hoernes et Auinger) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 85, figs 125–130.

Material – 12 specimens – Coşteiu: M 60.9884.; Lăpugiu: M 60.8297.A-B., 60.8318.B-G., 60.10553.A-C.

Description – SL: 10–27. Spire moderately high, outline straight to slightly convex. Spiral whorls slightly convex, smooth. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl slightly elongate, narrowly ovate, outline convex, smooth with 4 spiral grooves at the base. Anterior notch slightly developed. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – The species was abundant in the Letkés assemblage ( KOVÁCS & VICIÁN 2014). It differs from V. ponderosus in size and in narrower shell.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Paratethys ( Bosnia,? Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania).