Chelyconus vindobonensis, R. Hoernes & Auinger, 1879

Kovács, Z. & Vicián, Z., 2013, Badenian (Middle Miocene) Conoidean (Neogastropoda) fauna from Letkés (N Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 30, pp. 53-100 : 62

Chelyconus vindobonensis (Partsch in Hörnes, 1856)

(Figs 28–29)

partim 1856 Conus ventricosus Bronn – HÖRNES, p. 32, pl. 3, figs 5, 7 (non figs 6, 8).

1879 Conus (Chelyconus) vindobonensis Partsch – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 48.

1966 Conus (Chelyconus) vindobonensis Partsch in Hörnes – STRAUSZ, p. 458, pl. 69, figs 3–5.

1973 Conus (Chelyconus) ottiliae Hoernes et Auinger – BOHN-HAVAS, p. 1123, pl. 7, figs 7–8.

1973 Conus (Chelyconus) vindobonensis Partsch in Hörnes – NICORICI & SAGATOVICI, p. 176, pl. 27, figs 2–3.

1997 Conus (Chelyconus) vindobonensis Partsch in Hörnes – BAŁUK, p. 65, pl. 23, figs 1–6 (cum syn.).

? 2001 Conus (Chelyconus) vindobonensis Partsch in Hörnes – CHIRA & VOIA, pl. 2, fig. 5.

Material – 51 specimens.

Description – Shell medium-sized (SL: 11–34). Spire of moderate height, outline concave. Protoconch multispiral, projected. Spiral whorls convex, smooth. Shoulder angulate. Body whorl conical, outline convex, smooth with incised grooves at the anterior end. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – The Letkés specimens are close to the types, and agree with the materials presented by STRAUSZ (1966) and BAŁUK (1997). Dendroconus fuscocingulatus is a similar form, but it differs in lower spire and rounded shoulder. C. steinabrunnensis has longer body whorl, and bears lower spire with flat whorls.

Distribution – Austria, Czech Republic, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Turkey (MM), Algeria (UM). Hungary: Diósd, Hidas, Letkés, Budapest: Illés street (MM).