The auger snails (Gastropoda, Conoidea, Terebridae) 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 text Zootaxa 2023 2023-12-14 5385 1 1 70 https://mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5385.1.1/52480 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5385.1.1 1175-5334 10376252 7FBEC9FB-E31E-4CA4-8BD0-BE6D35322C3E Oxymeris cf. plicaria (de Basterot, 1825 ) cf. * Terebra plicaria de Basterot 1825: 52 , pl. 3, fig. 4. cf. Terebra plicaria Bast. —Grateloup 1845: pl. 35, figs 21, 22, 28. cf. [ Terebra ] Subula plicaria var. conicogigantea Sacc. Sacco 1891a: 12 , pl. 1, fig. 15. cf. [ Terebra ] S [ ubula ]. plicaria var. fuscatoides Sacc. Sacco 1891a: 13 , pl. 1, fig. 16. cf. [ Terebra ] S [ ubula ]. plicaria ? var. scalariolonga Sacc. Sacco 1891a: 13 , pl. 1, fig. 17. cf. [ Terebra ] S [ ubula ]. plicaria ? var. vermicularis Sacc. Sacco 1891a : p. 13, pl. 1, fig. 18. cf. [ Terebra ] S [ ubula ]. plicaria ? var. subHochstetteri Sacc.— Sacco 1891a: 14 , pl. 1, fig. 19. cf. [ Terebra ] S [ ubula ]. plicaria ? var. cerithinoidea Sacc. Sacco 1891a: 14 , pl. 1, fig. 20. cf. [ Terebra ] S [ ubula ]. plicaria ? var. fusco-modesta Sacc.— Sacco 1891a: 14 , pl. 1, fig. 21. cf. [ Terebra ] S [ ubula ]. plicaria ? var. laevicolligens Sacc. Sacco 1891a: 14 , pl. 1, fig. 22. cf. Terebra ( Subula ) fuscata Br. Cossmann 1896: 52 , pl. 4, fig. 7 [ non Oxymeris fuscata ( Brocchi, 1814 ) ]. cf. Terebra ( Subula ) plicaria Basterot Peyrot 1931: 117 , pl. 10, figs 21–24, 34, 35. Terebra ( Subula ) modesta Tristan var. Schaffer 1912: 136 , pl. 49, fig. 21. Terebra ( Subula ) fuscata (Brocchi) Răileanu & Negulescu 1964: 188 , pl. 15, fig. 7. Type material. Syntype MNHN .F.A70975 Saucats ( France ), Burdigalian ( Early Miocene ), illustrated in de Basterot (1825 : pl. 3, fig. 4) . Illustrated material. For comparison with Paratethyan Oxymeris species , we illustrate three specimens of Oxymeris plicaria from Saucats ( France ): NHMW 1851/0017/1169, SL: 89.2 mm , MD: 18.9 mm , Saucats ( France ), Figs 12A 1 –A 2 . NHMW 1851/0017/1169, SL: 79.1 mm , MD: 19.4 mm , Saucats ( France ), Figs 12C 1 –C 2 . NHMW 1851/0017/1169, SL: 74.3 mm , MD: 16.8 mm , Saucats ( France ), Figs 12B 1 –B 2 . Discussion. Only few Oxymeris specimens from the Eggenburgian have been described so far. These specimens are poorly preserved but agree well with Oxymeris plicaria (de Basterot, 1825 ) from its type region in size and general shape. Paleoenvironment. Shallow marine, inner neritic (own data, M.H.). Distribution in Central Paratethys. Eggenburgian (Early Miocene): North-Alpine Foreland Basin : Loibersdorf ( Austria ) ( Schaffer 1912 ); Petroşeni Basin : CoruŞ ( Romania ) ( Răileanu & Negulescu 1964 ).