Chelyconus steinabrunnensis ( Sacco, 1893 )

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

Chelyconus steinabrunnensis ( Sacco, 1893)

(Figs 22–27)

1879 Conus (Rhizoconus) ponderosus Brocchi – HOERNES & AUINGER, pl. 5, figs 4, 6.

1893 Conus (Chelyconus) steinabrunnensis – SACCO, p. 75.

1956 Conus (Rhizoconus) ponderosus steinabrunnensis Sacco – CSEPREGHY-MEZNERICS, pl. 11, figs 11–12.

1969 Conus (Chelyconus) ponderosus steinabrunnensis (Sacco) – ATANACKOVIĆ, p. 214, pl. 13, fig. 3.

1997 Conus (Rhizoconus) steinabrunnensis (Sacco) – BAŁUK, p. 61, pl. 22, figs 1–3 (cum syn.).

Material – 124 specimens.

Description – Shell medium-sized (SL: 12–40). Spire low, outline concave. Whorls smooth, ramps flat. Shoulder angulate. Body whorl conical, outline convex, smooth with fine grooves at the base. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – The Letkés material is close to the types, and to the specimens figured in the literature. The species differs from Dendroconus fuscocingulatus in angulate shoulder, and from C. vindobonensis in lower spire.

Distribution – Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania (MM). Hungary: Devecser, Hidas, Letkés, Pécsszabolcs, Szob, Budapest: Illés street, (?)Kerepesi street (MM).