Dendroconus steindachneri ( 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 : 67-68

Dendroconus steindachneri ( Hoernes et Auinger, 1879)

(Figs 47–49)

1879 Conus (Dendroconus) Steindachneri nov. form. (= Hochstetteri in text) – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 24, pl. 3, fig. 3.

1956 Conus (Dendroconus) steindachneri Hoernes et Auinger – CSEPREGHY-MEZNERICS, p. 422, pl. 11, figs 9–10, pl. 12, figs 1–2.

1963 Conus (Dendroconus) steindachneri Hoernes et Auinger – ATANACKOVIĆ, p. 79, pl. 14, figs 5–6.

1966 Conus (Cleobula) steindachneri Hoernes et Auinger – STRAUSZ, p. 465, pl. 71, figs 6–9.

? 2009 Conus (Dendroconus) steindachneri Hoernes et Auinger – MIKUŽ, p. 35, pl. 12, fig. 162.

? 2011 Conus (Cleobula) steindachneri Hoernes et Auinger – HASANI & VAZARI, p. 128, fig. 7/G.

Material – 29 specimens.

Description – Shell medium-sized (SL: 20–34). Spire of moderate height, outline straight. Spiral whorls smooth. Shoulder broad, rounded. Body whorl ventricosely conical, outline convex, smooth with grooves at the base. Subsutural flexure slightly curved, oblique. Colour pattern on some specimens with spiral stripes of small blotches resembles that of D. berghausi .

Remarks – This rare species is closely allied to D. berghausi , but it differs in higher and straight spire. It is probably a morphotype of the latter, but we temporarily recognise the validity at species level. D. steindachneri appeared in the Central Paratethys in the Karpatian. The morphology of the specimens figured by MIKUŽ (2009) and by HASANI & VAZARI (2011) seems to differ from that of the type.

Distribution – Austria, (?) Croatia, (?) Iran, Romania, (?) Slovenia, (?) Spain (LM-MM), Bosnia (MM). Hungary: Letkés, Magyaregregy, Szob (MM).