Varioconus ponderosus ( Brocchi, 1814 )

Kovács, Z. & Vicián, Z., 2013, Badenian (Middle Miocene) Conoidean (Neogastropoda) fauna from Letkés (N Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 30, pp. 53-100 : 87-88

Varioconus ponderosus ( Brocchi, 1814)

(Figs 138–142)

1814 Conus ponderosus – BROCCHI, p. 293, pl. 3, fig. 1.

1952 Conus (Chelyconus) pseudoponderosus Dollfus et Dautzenberg mss., nov. sp. – GLIBERT, p. 376, pl. 13, fig. 4.

1964 Conus ponderosus Brocchi – HALL, p. 156, pl. 28, figs 1–21 (cum syn.).

1966 Conus (Chelyconus) cfr. ponderosus Brocchi – STRAUSZ, p. 463, pl. 69, fig. 11, pl. 70, fig. 1.

1973 Conus (Chelyconus) pseudoponderosus Glibert – BOHN-HAVAS, p. 1067, pl. 7, fig. 4, pl. 9, fig. 12.

1999 Conus (Chelyconus) cfr. ponderosus Brocchi – MUÑIZ, p. 59, figs 2/P, 8/A–B (cum syn.).

2001 Conus (Chelyconus) ponderosus Brocchi – CHIRA & VOIA, pl. 3, fig. 1.

2010 Conus ponderosus Brocchi – SOSSO & DELL’ANGELO, pp. 49, 65.

Material – 211 specimens.

Description – Shell medium-sized (SL: 20–46). Spire of moderate height, outline straight. Whorls flat to convex, smooth. Shoulder subangulate to round- ed. Body whorl conical, outline straight to convex, smooth with fine ridges at the anterior end. Aperture wide, somewhat flaring. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – The species shows remarkably high level of intraspecific variability ( HALL 1964, pl. 28, figs 1–5, 11–16, 18–21; DAVOLI 1972, pl. 7, figs 1–2, 6, 9–11).

Distribution – Corsica, Cyprus, Switzerland (M), Italy (M-P), Spain (M-LP), Georgia (LM), Austria, France (LM-MM), Bosnia, Czech Republic, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine (MM), Greece (MM-LP), Turkey (MM-UM), Portugal (UM), Albania, Syria (P). Hungary: Várpalota (LM), Bánd, Diósd, (?)Kismaros, Letkés, Szob, Budapest: Illés street, Kerepesi street (MM).