Varioconus clavatulus ( d’Orbigny, 1852 )

Kovács, Z. & Vicián, Z., 2013, Badenian (Middle Miocene) Conoidean (Neogastropoda) fauna from Letkés (N Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 30, pp. 53-100 : 83

Varioconus clavatulus ( d’Orbigny, 1852)

(Figs 109–110)

1847 Conus clavatus Lamarck var. B – GRATELOUP, pl. 2, fig. 4.

1852 Conus clavatulus – D’ORBIGNY, p. 11.

1972 Conus cf. C. clavatulus Orbigny – DAVOLI, p. 88, pl. 4, figs 5, 15–17 (cum syn.).

1996 Conus (Chelyconus) cf. clavatulus d’Orbigny – KÓKAY, pl. 4, fig. 3.

1999 Conus (Chelyconus) clavatulus d’Orbigny – MUÑIZ, p. 42, figs 2/D, 6/K–M (cum syn.).

2004 Conus clavatulus d’Orbigny – ISLAMOĞLU, p. 163, pl. 4, fig. 8.

Material – 15 specimens.

Description – Shell moderately small (SL: 30–34). Spire of moderate height, outline convex.Spiral whorls high, slightly convex, smooth.Suture deep. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl sigmoid, smooth with fine ridges at the base. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved, of moderate depth.

Remarks – The juvenile specimen figured here is close to that represented by DAVOLI (1972, pl. 4, fig. 16). The species resembles V.noe (Brocchi) in morphology, but it differs in lower spire.

Distribution – France (LM), Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey (MM), Italy (M-LP), Spain (LP). Hungary: Letkés, (?) Budapest: Illés street (MM).