Sassia turrita ( Eichwald, 1830 )

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34, pp. 75-104 : 91

Sassia turrita ( Eichwald, 1830)

(Figs 41–42)

1830 Tritonium turritum – EICHWALD, p. 225.

1966 Charonia (Sassia) tarbelliana Grateloup – STRAUSZ, p. 249, pl. 30, figs 7–8.

2013 Sassia turrita (Eichwald) – LANDAU et al., p. 130, pl. 19, figs 5–8, pl. 62, fig. 9 (cum syn.).

Material – 43 specimens (SL 15–48); HNHM: INV 2017.681 . (Figs 41–42), INV 2017.682. (5) , 37 specimens in private collections.

Description – Fusiform shell, elevated spire, seven convex teleoconch whorls, shouldered early spire whorls with steep sutural ramp, rounded last whorl, constricted at the base. Ovate aperture, denticulate outer lip thickened by labral varix, long, narrow siphonal canal, long fasciole. Spiral sculpture of narrow cords on the spire, fine threads on the last whorl, axial sculpture of rounded ribs and one or two broad, rounded varices per whorl.

Remarks – The nomenclature problem of the species, the priority of Eichwald’s taxon and the replacement of Triton tarbellianum Grateloup was analyzed by LANDAU et al. (2009).

Distribution – Chattian: NSB ( Germany), Egerian: CP ( Hungary), late Burdigalian-Langhian: NSB ( the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany), Langhian-Serravallian: NEA ( France), Badenian: CP ( Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine), Serravallian: PMS ( Turkey).