The Lower Pliocene marine gastropods of Santa Maria Island, Azores: Taxonomy and palaeobiogeographic implications Author Sacchetti, Claudia 0000-0002-3225-3139 claudiasacc@icloud.com Author Landau, Bernard 0000-0002-7768-8494 bernardmlandau@gmail.com Author Ávila, Sérgio P. 0000-0002-3225-3139 claudiasacc@icloud.com text Zootaxa 2023 2023-05-24 5295 1 1 150 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5295.1.1 journal article 53396 10.11646/zootaxa.5295.1.1 82286fdc-a858-447c-9980-da2e8985d19c 1175-5326 7965273 F3A52660-70B8-439F-A7A0-F45ADC975EA5 Tethystrombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) Plate 4 A * Strombus coronatus Defrance 1827: 124 . Strombus italicus Duclos — Mayer 1864: 73 , pl. 7, fig. 54. Strombus coronatus Defr. —Pereira da Costa 1867: 137, pl. 17, fig. 3. Strombus coronatus Defrance — Fontannes 1879: 151 , pl. 9, fig. 1. Strombus coronatus (Defr.) — Sacco 1893: 7 , pl. 1, figs. 19-27. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Palla 1967: 959 , pl. 72, fig. 2. Strombus ( Strombus ) coronatus (Defrance, 1827) — Malatesta 1974: 219 , pl. 17, figs. 1-7. Strombus coronatus Defrance — Fekih 1975: 111 , pl. 33, fig. 1. Strombus ( S. ) coronatus Defrance — Pavia 1976a , pl. 5, figs. 1-4. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Meco 1977: 56 , pl. 14, fig. 2, pl. 15, fig. 2, pl. 16, figs. 1-2, pl. 17, figs. 1-2, pl. 18, figs. 1-2, pl. 19, fig. 1, pl. 20, fig. 1, pl. 21, fig. 1, pl. 22, fig. 1, pl. 23, figs. 1-3, pl. 24, fig. 1, pl. 25, figs. 1-2, pl. 26, fig. 1, pl. 27, figs. 1-2. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Martinell 1979: 123 , pl. 3, figs. 5-6. Strombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) — Ferrero Mortara et al . 1984: 138 , pl. 21, figs. 6-7. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Cavallo & Repetto 1992: 58 , fig. 101. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Solsona 1998: 169 , pl. 8, figs. 1-6. Strombus ( Strombus ) coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Landau et al. 2004a: 63 , pl. 14, fig. 6. Strombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) [ sic ]—Chirli 2008: 6, pl. 2, figs. 1-6. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Chirli & Richard 2008: 24 , pl. 3, fig. 7. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Sosso & Dell’Angelo 2010: 23 , 33, unumbered figure second row left. Strombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) [ sic ]—Brunetti 2014: 30, unumbered fig. Persististrombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) — Ávila et al. 2016b: 915 , fig. 2A-H. Persististrombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) —Brunetti & Vecchi 2016: 62, pl. 1, fig. A. Persististrombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) — Brunetti & Cresti 2018: 50 , fig. 130. non Strombus coronatus Defr. —Ĥrnes 1853: 187, pl. 17, fig. 1 [ Persististrombus inflexus ( Eichwald, 1830 ) ]. non Strombus coronatus Defr. —Hoernes & Auinger ( partim ) 1884: 163, pl. 18, figs. 4-5, pl. 19. fig. 1 [ Persististrombus inflexus ( Eichwald, 1830 ) ]. non Strombus coronatus Defr. —Hoernes & Auinger ( partim ) 1884: 163, pl. 18, figs. 1-3 [ Persististrombus lapugyensis ( Sacco, 1893 )]. non Strombus coronatus Defrance — Strausz 1966: 222 , figs. 102-103 [ Persististrombus inflexus ( Eichwald, 1830 ) ]. non Strombus coronatus Defrance — Schultz 1998: 60 , pl. 23, fig. 6 [ Persististrombus inflexus ( Eichwald, 1830 ) ]. Santa Maria material examined. Maximum height 119.1 mm, width 107.2 mm. Figueiral: CIADP-F 32 (1) Casa dos Fósseis Museum, Santa Maria (collection Dalberto Pombo); DBUA-F 1011 (2), DBUA-F 1236 (1), DBUA-F 533 (1), Malbusca; DBUA-F 928- A (1), Malbusca, Santa Maria Island, Azores , Touril Complex, Lower Pliocene. Discussion. Dekkers (2008) erected the genus Tethystrombus with the West African Strombus latus Gmelin, 1791 as type species. He included in his new genus the European fossil Strombus bubonius Lamarck, 1822 and S. coronatus Defrance, 1827 . The ongoing heated discussion as to the phylogeny of this group (i.e., Dekkers, 2008 , vs. Kronenberg & Vermeij 2002 ) will not be entered into here. The presence of Tethystrombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) in the Santa Maria assemblages and its biogeographic, palaeoecological and palaeoclimatological implications were fully discussed in Ávila et al. (2016b) . Distribution. Middle Miocene: Atlantic, Aquitaine Basin (Cossmann & Peyrot 1924), Loire Basin ( Glibert 1949 ). Upper Miocene: Atlantic, Portugal (Pereira da Costa 1867); Proto-Mediterranean, Italy ( Sacco 1893 ). Lower Pliocene: Atlantic, Santa Maria Island, Azores ( Ávila et al. 2015b , 2016b, 2018a, 2020a, 2022; Rebelo et al . 2016; Uchman et al . 2017 , 2020 ; Dávid et al . 2021 ), Madeira and Porto Santo ( Mayer 1864 ), Canary Islands ( Meco 1977 ), Morocco ( Lecointre 1952 ); western Mediterranean, NE Spain, ( Martinell 1979 ; Martinell & Marquina 1981 ), France ( Fontannes 1879 ; Chirli & Richard 2008 ); central Mediterranean, Italy ( Sacco 1893 ; Pavia 1976a ; Cavallo & Repetto 1992 ; Chirli 2008; Sosso & Dell’Angelo 2010 ; Brunetti & Cresti 2018 ). Upper Pliocene: central Mediterranean, Italy (Brunetti & Vecchi 2016), western Mediterranean, Estepona Basin ( Landau et al. 2004a ).