Varioconus vindobonensis ( Hörnes, 1856 )

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 : 38

Varioconus vindobonensis ( Hörnes, 1856)

(Figs 93–94)

1879 Conus (Chelyconus) vindobonensis Partsch – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 48.

non 2001 Conus (Chelyconus) vindobonensis Partsch in Hörnes – CHIRA & VOIA, pl. 2, fig. 5. [=? Varioconus ponderosus (Brocchi) ]

2014 Chelyconus vindobonensis (Partsch in Hörnes) – KOVÁCS & VICIÁN, p. 62, figs 28–29 (cum syn.).

Material – 21 specimens – Coşteiu: M 68.16.; Lăpugiu: M 60.8277.B-D., 60.8297.F., 60.8301.E., 60.8306.B., 60.8313.A-E., 60.8317.D-F., 60.8345.E-F., 60.8346.B., 60.8353.K-M., 60.8941.B.

Description – SL: 13–38. Spire of moderate height, outline concave. Protoconch multispiral, projected. Spiral whorls convex, smooth. Shoulder angulate. Body whorl conical, outline convex, smooth with fine grooves at the base. Subsutural flexure asymmetrically curved.

Remarks – V. steinabrunnensis is a similar form but differs in more elongate body whorl and in lower spire with flat whorls.

Distribution – Middle Miocene: Paratethys ( Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Serbia), Mediterranean ( Turkey).