Favartia (Pygmaepterys) transsylvanica (Hoernes et Auinger, 1885)

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 : 124

Favartia (Pygmaepterys) transsylvanica (Hoernes et Auinger, 1885)

(Figs 36–37)

1885 Murex (Muricidea) transsylvanicus – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 207, pl. 24, fig. 12.

2017 Favartia (Pygmaepterys) transsylvanica (Hoernes et Auinger) – VICIÁN et al., p. 268, text-fig. 2, pl. 2, figs 9–10.

Material – 13 specimens; Coşteiu: M.60.6945 (6), M.60.6946, M.60.10459 (2), M.60.10471 (2), M.60.10792; Lăpugiu: M.60.7950.

Remarks – P. transsylvanica is a rare species: beside the type area (Lăpugiu and Coşteiu), it is known only at two Pannonian Basin localities (Bánd, Bakony Mts, and Letkés, Börzsöny Mts, Hungary).