Muricodrupa? styriaca ( Hilber, 1879 )

Kovács, Zoltán, 2018, Muricidae (Neogastropoda) assemblages from the Middle Miocene of the Făget Basin (Romania) in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 35, pp. 111-142 : 133

Muricodrupa? styriaca ( Hilber, 1879)

(Figs 63–64)

1879 Purpura styriaca Stur – HILBER, p. 431, pl. 2, figs 9–10.

1966 Drupa styriaca (Stur in Hilber) – STRAUSZ, p. 284, text-fig. 130 (cum syn.).

Material – 1 specimen; Coşteiu: M.60.6985.

Remarks – The generic classification of the species is unclear. The morphology of Drupa species differs by strong columellar teeth. Based on the paucispiral protoconch, the sculpture, and the presence of one columellar fold, styriaca is assigned herein to genus Muricodrupa provisionally. The species is a rare element of the Central Paratethys gastropod assemblages, it is known only from Austria (Gamlitz), Hungary (Bánd, Sámsonháza), and Romania (Coşteiu).