Lautoconus raristriatus ( Bellardi et Michelotti, 1840 )

Kovács, Z. & Vicián, Z., 2013, Badenian (Middle Miocene) Conoidean (Neogastropoda) fauna from Letkés (N Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 30, pp. 53-100 : 71

Lautoconus raristriatus ( Bellardi et Michelotti, 1840)

(Figs 66–69)

1840 Conus Raristriatus – BELLARDI & MICHELOTTI, p. 61, pl. 5, figs 8–9.

non 1856 Conus raristriatus Bellardi et Michelotti – HÖRNES, p. 28, pl. 3, fig. 2 [= V. enzesfeldensis (Hoernes et Auinger) ].

1972 Conus raristriatus Bellardi et Michelotti – DAVOLI, p. 129, pl. 8, figs 1–2 (cum syn.).

2001 Conus raristriatus Bellardi et Michelotti – CHIRA & VOIA, pl. 1, fig. 2.

Material – 16 specimens.

Description – Shell medium-sized (SL: 30–48). Spire high, outline straight to slightly concave. Subapical whorls weakly tuberculate, late whorls flat to slightly convex, smooth. Shoulder rounded. Body whorl conical, outline straight, wholly ornamented with widely spaced fine spiral ridges. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – The Letkés specimens are close to the syntype (figured by FERRERO MORTARA et al. 1984, pl. 19, fig. 3), but they differ in somewhat higher spire. They resemble the material published by DAVOLI (1972, pl. 8, fig. 1).

Distribution – Italy (M), Romania (MM). Hungary: Letkés (MM).