Late Miocene Conidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Crete (Greece). Part 1: genera Conilithes Swainson, 1840 and Conus (Kalloconus) da Motta, 1991 Author Psarras, Christos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology & Geoenvironment, Department of Hist. Geology-Paleontology, Athens (Greece) cpsarras@geol.uoa.gr Author Koskeridou, Efterpi National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology & Geoenvironment, Department of Hist. Geology-Paleontology, Athens (Greece) ekosker@geol.uoa.gr Author Merle, Didier CR 2 P (CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, Sorbonne Université), Département Origines et Évolution, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, case postale 38, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) didier.merle@mnhn.fr text Geodiversitas 2021 2021-12-02 43 24 1309 1339 journal article 3058 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a24 d9b664cc-3197-44d5-92ca-08f8ce0fcc4f 1638-9395 5764710 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D36D1E14-73BE-4176-8024-F3673A65B8C1 Subgenus Kalloconus da Motta, 1991 Trovaoconus Tucker &Tenorio, 2009: 126 . — Conus venulatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (Recent: West-Africa) by original designation. FIG. 11. — Conilithes antidiluvianus ( Bruguière, 1792 ) from the Tortonian of Makrilia, Crete, Greece (AMPG(IV) 2691): a broken specimen, very faint pattern under UV light. The white arrow indicates the colour pattern. Scale bar: 1 cm. TYPE SPECIES. — Conus pulcher Lightfoot, 1786 (Recent, West Africa) by original designation. DIAGNOSIS. — Protoconch multispiral. Teleoconch squat to moderately elongate, obconic shells with broad and rounded shoulders. Spire whorls low to very low, smooth, convex. Subsutural flexure very shallow in small species - deep in larger species, moderately curved and moderately asymmetrical. Colour pattern consists mainly of spirally arranged spots and dashes in continuous spiral rows (Diagnosis followingTucker & Tenorio (2009) and Harzhauser & Landau (2016) . REMARKS Puillandre et al. (2014) considered Kalloconus at subgenus level and found a monophyletic group. Today Kalloconus is restricted to the tropical East Atlantic (West Africa), but its fossil record demonstrates that it also had a European distribution during the Miocene in the Proto- Mediterranean and Paratethys. Conus ( Kalloconus ) can be distinguished from Conus ( Monteiroconus ) , mainly by the lack of spiral cords on the whorls and by its straight, lightly concave whorls.