Chelyconus rotundus ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879 )

Kovács, Z. & Vicián, Z., 2013, Badenian (Middle Miocene) Conoidean (Neogastropoda) fauna from Letkés (N Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 30, pp. 53-100 : 61

Chelyconus rotundus ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879)

(Figs 16–19)

1879 Conus (Chelyconus) rotundus nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 50, pl. 6, fig. 8.

1966 Conus (Chelyconus) rotundus Hoernes et Auinger – STRAUSZ,p. 458, pl. 69, figs 9–10 (cum syn.). 1973 Conus (Chelyconus) rotundus Hoernes et Auinger – BOHN-HAVAS, p. 1122.

1997 Conus (Chelyconus) rotundus Hoernes et Auinger – BAŁUK, p. 64, pl. 22, figs 4–8 (cum syn.).

Material – 76 specimens.

Description –Shell medium-sized(SL:24–54).Spire of low to moderate height, pointed, outline convex. Spiral whorls convex, smooth, suture deep. Shoulder subangulate. Body whorl conical, outline straight to slightly convex, smooth with fine grooves at the base. Aperture wide. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – The Letkés specimens agree well with the type and the specimens figured by BAŁUK (1997). The species differs from Varioconus conoponderosus in lower and convex spire, and in subangulate shoulder, while from Monteiroconus bitorosus in shape of the body whorl and of the shoulder.

Distribution – Austria, (?) Italy, Poland, Romania (MM). Hungary: Letkés, Pécsszabolcs, Szob (MM).