Monteiroconus aldrovandi ( Brocchi, 1814 )

Kovács, Z. & Vicián, Z., 2013, Badenian (Middle Miocene) Conoidean (Neogastropoda) fauna from Letkés (N Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 30, pp. 53-100 : 76

Monteiroconus aldrovandi ( Brocchi, 1814)

(Figs 80–81)

1814 Conus Aldrovandi – BROCCHI, p. 287, pl. 2, fig. 5.

1879 Conus (Lithoconus) Aldrovandi Brocchi – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 25, pl. 4, fig. 2.

1964 Conus aldrovandi Brocchi – HALL, p. 125, pl. 20, figs 1, 5, 12, 14.

1969 Conus (Dendroconus) aldrovandi Brocchi – ATANACKOVIĆ, p. 213, pl. 13, fig. 1.

non 1971 Conus aldrovandi Brocchi – EREMIJA, p. 78, pl. 5, fig. 8 [= L. eschewegi (da Costa)].

Material – 5 specimens.

Description – Shell large (SL: 26–60). Spire moderately high, outline straight. Early spiral whorls step-like, the last two whorls convex. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl conical, outline convex, smooth with fine spiral ridges at the anterior end. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved, of moderate depth.

Remarks – The Letkés specimens agree with the holotype (figured by PINNA & SPEZIA 1978, pl. 17, fig. 2) in overall appearance, but differ in slightly higher spire. Conus clavatus Lamarck, 1810 was regarded as a synonym of M. aldrovandi by HALL (1964), however, this opinion has not been acknowledged in the literature ( CHIRLI 1997).

Distribution – Corsica (M), Italy (MM-LP), Algeria, Austria, Bosnia, Czech Republic, Sardinia, Switzerland (MM), Spain (MM-UM). Hungary: Letkés (MM).