Conilithes antidiluvianus ( Bruguière, 1792 )

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 : 38

Conilithes antidiluvianus ( Bruguière, 1792)

(Figs 95–96)

1792 Conus antidiluvianus – BRUGUIÈRE, p. 637, pl. 347, fig. 6.

1879 Conus (Leptoconus) Berwerthi nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 35, pl. 5, figs 11–12. 2014 a Conilithes antidiluvianus (Bruguière) – JANSSEN et al., p. 73–90.

Material – 7 specimens – Coşteiu: M 60.8924.A-C., 60.9873.A., 60.9876.; Lăpugiu: M 60.8285., 60.8922.

Description – SL: 6–46. Spire high, outline straight, step-like. Sutural ramps concave, smooth. Shoulder carinate, finely tuberculate. Body whorl conical, outline straight, smooth with fine spiral grooves at the anterior end. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – A comprehensive revision of the taxon was recently provided by JANSSEN et al. (2014 a, b).

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Atlantic ( Portugal), North Sea ( Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands), Paratethys ( Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania), Mediterranean ( Albania, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Turkey).