Ficus condita ( Brongniart, 1823 )

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34, pp. 75-104 : 98

Ficus condita ( Brongniart, 1823)

(Figs 62–64)

1823 Pyrula condita – BRONGNIART, p. 75, pl. 6, fig. 4.

1966 Pirula condita Brongniart – STRAUSZ, p. 254, pl. 57, figs 4–6.

2013 Ficus condita (Brongniart) – LANDAU et al., p. 132, pl. 19, fig. 13, pl. 62, fig. 10 (cum syn.). 2016 Ficus condita (Brongniart) – STEIN et al., p. 41, pl. 15, fig. 7.

Material – 32 specimens (SL 21–44); HNHM: INV 2017.692 . (Fig. 63), INV 2017.693. (9) , 22 specimens in private collections.

Description – Ficiform shell, low spire, protoconch of two convex, smooth whorls, convex teleoconch whorls, last whorl 94–97% of total height, constricted at base. Long, wide aperture, smooth outer lip, long, slightly recurved siphonal canal. Cancellate sculpture with numerous narrow and strong primary spiral cords and fine secondaries in the interspaces, and fine axial ribs.

Remarks – The morphology of the species differs from that of F. cingulata in higher spire and finer sculpture, and from F. geometra in stronger primary cords. It is widely distributed in the Early-Middle Miocene localities of Hungary, and it was the most abundant Ficus species in the mollusc assemblage of Letkés.

Distribution – Aquitanian-Serravallian: NEA ( France), Burdigalian: PMS ( Italy), Eggenburgian: CP ( Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania), Karpatian: CP ( Hungary), late Burdigalian-Langhian: NSB ( the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark), Badenian: CP ( Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine), Serravallian: PMS ( Turkey), Tortonian: PMS ( Italy). For Oligocene range see LANDAU et al. (2013).