Conilithes granularis ( Borson, 1820 )

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 : 40-42

Conilithes granularis ( Borson, 1820)

(Figs 109–110)

1820 Conus Granularis – BORSON, p. 196, pl. 1, fig. 3.

1879 Conus (Stephanoconus) Stachei nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 16, pl. 6, figs 14–16. 1902 Conus (Stephanoconus) wagneri n. sp. – BOETTGER, p. 7.

2014 Conilithes granularis (Borson) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 93, fig. 160 (cum syn.).

Material – 221 specimens – Coşteiu: M 60.8926. (39 spp.), 60.9853.A-B., 60.9855.A-D., 60.9860.A-B., 60.9862.C., 60.9863.D-E., 60.9866. (153 spp.), 60.9867.A-B., 60.9869., 60.9870., 60.9875., 60.9881.A-E., 60.9886., 60.10276.E-I.; Lăpugiu: M 60.10553.D., 68.595.N.

Description – SL: 4–12.5. Shell biconical, spire high, outline straight, whorls ornamented with two fine grooves in the middle. Shoulder angular. Body whorl conical, outline straight to sigmoid, smooth with spiral ridges at the base or entirely covered with regularly spaced, fine spiral ridges. Subsutural flexure symmetrically curved, of moderate depth.

Remarks – The species is characterised by two phenotypically different forms with granulate or striate body whorl. As size and morphology of “ Stephanoconus ” wagneri Boettger agree well with that of C. granularis , it is considered here as a junior synonym.

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