Pseudonoduloconus cf. subbigranosus ( Sacco, 1893 )

Kovács, Zoltán & Balázs, Péter, 2015, Conidae (Neogastropoda) assemblage from the Middle Miocene of the Făget Basin (Romania) in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 32, pp. 11-48 : 28

Pseudonoduloconus cf. subbigranosus ( Sacco, 1893)

(Figs 48–49)

1893 Stephanoconus subbigranosus – SACCO, p. 120, pl. 11, fig. 24, varieties: bispirata, subbicrenulata, ligusticofusulata, ligusticovulata, ligusticoconica, pliocoronaxoides: p. 120–121, pl. 11, figs 25–30.

1999 Conus (Stephanoconus) subbigranosus (Sacco) – MUÑIZ, p. 86, fig. 10J-L.

Material – 1 specimen – Coşteiu: M 60.9873.B.

Description – SL: 8. Spire elevated, outline slightly concave. Spiral whorls convex, beaded. Shoulder rounded, beaded. Body whorl conical, outline straight, smooth with spiral ridges at the base.

Remarks – Our specimen bears only 5 spiral whorls, it is regarded as a juvenile form, so the use of open nomenclature seems reasonable. It differs from the type (refigured by FERRERO MORTARA et al. 1984, pl. 20, fig. 12) in slightly narrower and higher spire, it is closer to the morphotype subbicrenulata ( SACCO 1893, pl. 11, fig. 26). The small-sized species differs from C. antidiluvianus and C. dujardini in convex spiral whorls and rounded shoulder.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Paratethys ( Romania), Mediterranean ( Italy).