Galeodea echinophora ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34, pp. 75-104 : 79

Galeodea echinophora ( Linnaeus, 1758)

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1758 Buccinum echinophorum – LINNAEUS, p. 735.

1969 a Cassidaria echinophora pliotriseriata Sacco – CSEPREGHY-MEZNERICS, p. 78, pl. 2, figs 21–22. 2004 Galeodea echinophora (Linnaeus) – LANDAU et al., p. 43, pl. 2, fig. 2 (cum syn.).

2009 Galeodea echinophora (Linnaeus) – LANDAU et al., p. 66, pl. 3, figs 1–2 (cum syn.).

Material – Six specimens (SL 36–48); in private collections .

Description – Fusiform shell, moderately elevated spire, five subangulate teleoconch whorls with slightly concave sutural ramp, convex, expanded last whorl. Ovate aperture, denticulate outer lip thickened by labral varix, wide pseudoumbilicus. Spiral sculpture of fine cords, nodulose shoulder, two rows of nodules on the last whorl, axial sculpture of fine growth lines.

Remarks – The species has a large but fragile shell, so complete shells are very rare in the resedimented layers of the Letkés section.

Distribution – Burdigalian: PMS ( Italy), NSB ( Germany), Eggenburgian: CP ( Germany), late Karpatian: CP ( Slovakia), Badenian: CP ( Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania), Tortonian: NEA ( Portugal), PMS ( Italy). For Pliocene range see VAN DINGENEN et al. (2016).