Ficus cingulata

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34, pp. 75-104 : 100

Ficus cingulata (Bronn in Hörnes, 1856)

(Figs 67–68)

1856 Pyrula cingulata Bronn – HÖRNES, p. 676, pl. 28, figs 1–3.

1954 Pirula (Ficus) condita cingulata Bronn – STRAUSZ, p. 103, pl. 7, fig. 152.

1969b Pirula cingulata Bronn – CSEPREGHY-MEZNERICS, p. 24, pl. 8, figs 5, 10.

2002 Ficus (Ficus) cingulata Bronn – HARZHAUSER, p. 90, pl. 5, fig. 16 (cum syn.).

Material – 12 specimens (SL 30–64); HNHM: INV 2017.694 . (9) , three specimens in private collections.

Description – Large, ficiform shell, low spire, protoconch of two convex, smooth whorls, convex teleoconch whorls, last whorl 98% of the total height, constricted at the base. Long, wide aperture, smooth outer lip, long, slightly recurved siphonal canal. Spiral sculpture of two strong primary and numerous fine secondary cords on sutural ramp of the last whorl, broad, flat primary cords (10–14 on the last whorl) with two secondaries in the interspaces, axial sculpture of fine axial ribs.

Remarks – The species is typical of the Paratethys. It differs in morphology from F. condita by larger size, lower spire and broad and flat spiral primary cords.

Distribution – Karpatian-Badenian: CP ( Austria, Hungary), Badenian: CP ( Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania).