Conidae Fleming 1822
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Family Conidae Fleming, 1822
Note. The presence of conoidean gastropods in the Santa Maria assemblages was already noted by Bronn in Hartung (1861: 117), who recorded Conus? pyrula Brocchi, without stating the exact locality. Bronn in Reiss (1862: 23-24) listed three species: C. canditatus Bronn in Mayer, C. trochulus Reeve, and C.? pyrula, the first two from Pinheiros. Mayer (1864: 76-80) re-listed C. candidatus, erected a new species C. trochilus Mayer, 1864, for Bronn’s record C. trochulus in Bronn in Reiss (1862), and referred to the C.? pyrula reference of early authors as Conus species indeterminata.
In the material at hand, we recognized five species. The species herein determined as Lautoconus cf. anomalomamillus (Sacco, 1893) might be the same as the C.? pyrula recorded by previous authors, the other (Conus sl. sp. A) has not been recorded before. Although the following determinations are rather speculative and based on poor and incomplete material, conid diversity is important in the Pliocene of Europe as high diversity is characteristic of tropical MPPMU1.
The relative merits of using one genus or many for cones was discussed at length by Harzauser & Landau (2016: 35). In this paper, we follow those authors and Tucker & Tenorio (2009) in using the subgenera at full genus rank.
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- Fleming
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
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- Neogastropoda
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- Conidae
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- family
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- Conidae Fleming, 1822 sec. Sacchetti, Landau & Ávila, 2023
References
- Fleming, J. (1822) The philosophy of zoology, a general view of the structure, functions and classification of animals. Vol. 2. Constable & Co., Edinburgh, 618 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 24597
- Reiss, W. (1862) Mittheilungen u ¨ ber die tertia ¨ ren Schichten von Santa Maria, der su ¨ dlichsten der Azoren, und ihre organischen Einschlu ¨ sse. Nebst Beschreibung dieser letzten und Abbildung der neuen Arten, von H. G. Bronn. Neues Jahrbuch fu ¨ r Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefactunkunde, 1862, 1 - 48.
- Mayer, K. (1864). Die Tertiar-fauna der Azoren und Madeiren. Zurich, published by the author. Z ¸ rich: vi + 107 pp. + 7 pls.
- Sacco, F. (1893). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XIV. (Strombidae, Terebellidae, Chenopidae ed Haliidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 40 pp., 2 pls.
- Landau, B. M., Harzhauser, M., B ¸ y ¸ kmeric, Y. & Breitenberger, A. (2016) Additions to the gastropods of the middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey. Cainozoic Research, 16 (2), 221 - 229.
- Tucker, J. K. & Tenorio, M. J. (2009) Systematic Classification of Recent and Fossil Conoidean Gastropods, with Keys to the Genera of Cone Shells. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany, 294 pp.