Conilithes canaliculatus ( 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 : 39

Conilithes canaliculatus ( Brocchi, 1814)

(Figs 99–104)

1814 Conus canaliculatus – BROCCHI, p. 636, pl. 15, fig. 28.

1879 Conus (Leptoconus) Brezinae nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 36.

? 1887 Conus (Chelyconus) sceptophorus n. sp. – BOETTGER, p. 7, pl. 2, figs 6–8.

2013 Conilithes dujardini (Deshayes) – LANDAU et al., p. 252, pl. 41, figs 1–3, 18, pl. 42, fig. 12, pl. 82, fig. 5.

2014 Conilithes canaliculatus (Brocchi) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 91, figs 152–156 (cum syn.).

Material – 56 specimens – Coşteiu: M 60.8966., 60.9866., 60.9887.A-D., 60.9890.A-C.; Lăpugiu: M 60.6335., 60.8276.D-I., 60.8297.C-E., 60.8305. (17 spp.), 60.8319.F-I., 60.8323.A-H., 60.8335.M., 60.8941.A., 60.8967., 60.10075.A- B., 68.596.A., 68.606.A-B.

Description – SL: 6–37. Shell biconical, spire elevated, outline straight. Spiral whorls high, angular, dropped, smooth or striate, weakly tuberculate near the apex. Sutural ramps steep, slightly concave. Shoulder angulate, sloping. Body whorl smooth with incised grooves at the anterior end. Aperture straight, narrow. Subsutural flexure symmetrically curved.

Remarks – Taxonomical problems of the species was recently treated by KOVÁCS & VICIÁN (2014). C. dujardini differs markedly in morphology (see below).

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Paratethys ( Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine), Mediterranean ( Greece, Italy, Turkey).