Conus amini (Abbass, 1977)

 

 

Description:

 

Shell small, biconical; spire low (not complete); whorl outline concave with posterior astragal; body whorl constitutes great part of shell, shower posterior concave shoulder with subrounded edge below which whorl becomes inflated then contracted anteriorly into long beak with convex sides; anterior part of beak crossed by five imbricating, inclined, wide, spiral cords followed anteriorly by raised basal fasciole crossed by fine spiral cords; aperture narrow with subparallel edge (1).

Asprella ornatissima (Martin) in Shuto (1969, Pl. 22, figs. 1,2,4,11,14) differs from the specimen herein described as it show a proportionately narrower shell with spiral ornament over the entire shell (1).

Helvetian, Lower Geneifa Member, Geneifa

 

 

 

 


Conus amini (Abbass, 1977)
Holotype G588
Pl. IX Fig. 2, 7
mm. 19 x 11
Vindobonian – Geneifa - Egitto
 
Conus cf. amini
Pliocene – Tunisia

 

 

 

RGM.7424 | Conus ornatissimus Martin, 1882

 

 

 

 

 

 
Conus ornatissimus
(Martin, 1882)
RGM. 7424
mm. 35,5
Upper Miocene - Ci Longgan, Java
Conus amini
(Abbass, 1977)
Holotype G588
Pl. IX Fig. 2
mm. 19 x 11
Vindobonian – Geneifa

 

 


Bibliografia Consultata

 

·         (1) – Houssein Abbass (1977) “A Monograph on the new Miocene Gastropod species in the Cairo-Suez district, Egypt“, J. Univ. Kwait Sci,4