Varioconus clavatulus ( Orbigny, 1852 )

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 : 28

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.17111/FragmPalHung.2015.32.11
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scientific name	Varioconus clavatulus ( Orbigny, 1852 )
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Varioconus clavatulus ( Orbigny, 1852) View in CoL

(Figs 54–57)

1852 Conus clavatulus – ORBIGNY, p. 11.

2014 Varioconus clavatulus (Orbigny) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 83, figs 109–110 (cum syn.).

Material – 3 specimens – Coşteiu: M 60.10101., 60.10114.; Nemeşeşti: M 60.8118.B.

Description – SL: 43–71. Spire of moderate height, outline convex. Spiral whorls high, slightly convex, smooth. Suture deep. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl sigmoid, smooth with fine ridges at the base. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved, of moderate depth.

Remarks – V.noe differs in striate spiral whorls and in narrower body whorl.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: North Sea ( Belgium, the Netherlands), Paratethys ( Hungary, Romania), Mediterranean ( Turkey).