Lautoconus pyrula ( Brocchi, 1814 )

Kovács, Z. & Vicián, Z., 2013, Badenian (Middle Miocene) Conoidean (Neogastropoda) fauna from Letkés (N Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 30, pp. 53-100 : 71

Lautoconus pyrula ( Brocchi, 1814)

(Figs 62–65)

1814 Conus pyrula – BROCCHI, p. 288, pl. 2, fig. 8.

1964 Conus pyrula Brocchi – HALL, p. 152 (cum syn.).

1974 Conus (Chelyconus) pyrula Brocchi – MALATESTA, p. 383, pl. 30, fig. 8 (cum syn.).

1997 Conus (Chelyconus) pyrula Brocchi – BAŁUK, p. 63, pl. 21, figs 5–6 (cum syn.).

1999 Conus (Dendroconus) pyrula Brocchi – MUÑIZ, p. 74, fig. 9/F–G (cum syn.).

Material – 22 specimens.

Description – Shell medium-sized (SL: 25–42). Spire of moderate height, outline sigmoid. Apex elevated, spiral whorls smooth. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl ventricosely conical, outline slightly sigmoid, smooth with fine incised grooves at the anterior end. Subsutural flexure slightly curved, almost diagonal, of moderate depth.

Remarks – The Letkés specimens agree well with the holotype (figured by PINNA & SPEZIA 1978, pl. 24, fig. 1), and with the specimens represented in the literature.

Distribution – Cyprus (M), France (LM), Austria, Bosnia, Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia (MM), Greece, Portugal (MM-UM), Italy, Spain, Turkey (MM- P). Hungary: Letkés, Mátraverebély, Budapest: Rákos (MM).