Varioconus noe ( Brocchi, 1814 )

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 : 30

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.17111/FragmPalHung.2015.32.11
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scientific name	Varioconus noe ( Brocchi, 1814 )
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Varioconus noe ( Brocchi, 1814)

(Figs 66–68)

1814 Conus noe – BROCCHI, p. 293, pl. 3, fig. 3.

1879 Conus (Chelyconus) Transsylvanicus nov. form. – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 41, pl. 1, fig. 14.

1997 Conus (Chelyconus) noe Brocchi – CHIRLI, p. 5, pl. 1, fig. 10 (cum syn.).

non 2001 Conus (Chelyconus) noe Brocchi – CHIRA & VOIA, pl. 3, fig. 2. [= Varioconus clavatulus ( Orbigny, 1852) ]

Material – 2 specimens – Lăpugiu: M 60.8358.E., 60.10156.

Description – SL: 51–60. Spire of moderate height, outline slightly convex. Spiral whorls high, slightly convex to concave, striate. Shoulder somewhat subangulate. Body whorl narrowly conical, smooth with fine ridges at the base. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved, of moderate depth. Colour pattern: dense spiral rows of dashes.

Remarks – V. clavatulus differs in smooth spiral whorls and in broader body whorl.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Paratethys ( Romania).