The Colubrariidae, Eosiphonidae, Melongenidae, Pisaniidae, Prodotiidae and Tudiclidae (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea
Author
Harzhauser, Mathias
0000-0002-4471-6655
Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria mathias. harzhauser @ nhm-wien. ac. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4471 - 6655
mathias.harzhauser@nhm-wien.ac.at
Author
Landau, Bernard M.
0000-0002-4471-6655
Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria mathias. harzhauser @ nhm-wien. ac. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4471 - 6655 & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands; Instituto Dom Luiz da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749 - 016 Lisboa, Portugal; and International Health Centres, Av. Infante de Henrique 7, Areias São João, P- 8200 Albufeira, Portugal bernardmlandau @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7768 - 8494 & Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria mathias. harzhauser @ nhm-wien. ac. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4471 - 6655
mathias.harzhauser@nhm-wien.ac.at
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-03-19
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5427.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5427.1.1
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Euthria zachosi
nov. sp.
Figs 46D–F
Type material.
Holotype
:
NHMW 2023
/0350/0003, SL:
38.1 mm
,
MD
:
19.3 mm
,
Bad Vöslau
(
Austria
),
Figs 46D
1
–D
2
.
Paratypes
:
NHMW 2023
/0350/0003, SL:
39.7 mm
,
MD
:
19.9 mm
,
Bad Vöslau
(
Austria
),
Figs 46E
1
–E
2
.
NHMW 2023
/0347/0002, SL:
38.3 mm
,
MD
:
19.6 mm
,
Niederleis
(
Austria
),
Fig.
46F
.
Type
locality.
Bad Vöslau
(
Austria
),
Vienna
Basin
.
Type
stratum.
Baden Formation.
Age.
Middle Miocene, middle Badenian (Langhian).
Etymology.
In honor of Franz Zachos, zoologist at the NHMW.
Diagnosis.
Medium-sized, moderately broad, ovate shell with slightly coeloconoid early spire passing to cyrtoconoid on later whorls. Anal canal incised with broad, not very parietal denticle; indistinct swelling in area of anal denticle. Outer lip strongly thickened with about eight long lirae.
Description.
Medium-sized, moderately broad, ovate shell of up to seven teleoconch whorls with slightly coeloconoid early spire passing to cyrtoconoid on later whorls; apical angle ~60°. Protoconch unknown. First two teleoconch whorls with weak axial ribs and delicate spiral cords. Later teleoconch whorls flat-sided, smooth, separated by indistinct suture. Last whorl smooth, ovate, broad, very high, attaining ~80% of total height, subsutural ramp slightly concave, hardly delimited, broadly convex below; base moderately constricted bearing distinct spiral cords; fasciole slightly swollen.Aperture moderately small, ovate. Columella broadly and weakly excavated, weakly angled at transition to siphonal canal. Columellar callus weakly delimited. Anal canal incised, accentuated by broad, not very parietal denticle. Indistinct swelling in area of anal denticle. Outer lip strongly thickened adapically, thinning below, with about eight long lirae starting some distance behind peristome. Siphonal canal moderately long, relatively wide, deflected to the left, shallowly notched.
Discussion.
The specimens are smaller than
Euthria viciani
Kovács, 2018
and lack the typical color pattern. In addition, the adapical part of the siphonal canal is wider in
Euthria zachosi
but subparallel in
Euthria viciani
. The base and siphonal canal are sculptured with broad, but low, spiral cords whereas
Euthria viciani
has a smooth and glossy base. Lirae in
Euthria viciani
are short but reach far into aperture in
Euthria zachosi
.
Paleoenvironment.
The occurrences in the Baden Formation of the
Vienna
Basin suggest middle to outer neritic environments in up to
250 m
water depth (
Kranner
et al.
2021
).
Distribution in Central Paratethys.
Badenian (Middle Miocene):
Vienna
Basin:
Niederleis, Bad Vöslau (
Austria
).