Granulatocincta carasiensis Jekelius, 1944

Harzhauser, Mathias, Landau, Bernard & Janssen, Ronald, 2022, The Clavatulidae (Gastropoda, Conoidea) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea with considerations on fossil and extant Clavatulidae genera, Zootaxa 5123 (1), pp. 1-172 : 49-50

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scientific name	Granulatocincta carasiensis Jekelius, 1944
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Granulatocincta carasiensis Jekelius, 1944 species inquirenda

Fig. 17E View FIGURE 17

* Clavatula carasiensis n. sp. — Jekelius 1944: 87, pl. 23, figs 13–15.

Type material. Holotype: MNG P– 4965, SL: 3.5 mm, MD: 1.6 mm, Soceni ( Romania), illustrated in Jekelius (1944, pl. 23, fig. 15), stored in the National Museum of Geology of Romania (Bucharest), fig. 16E. Paratypes: MNG P– 4965, Soceni ( Romania), syntypes of Clavatula carasiensis Jekelius 1944 , illustrated in Jekelius (1944, pl. 23, figs 14–15), stored in the National Museum of Geology of Romania (Bucharest).

Revised description. Only tiny, juvenile shells comprising three teleoconch whorls available. Small slender fusiform with high spire; apical angle ~30°. Protoconch high, turreted, paucispiral with strongly convex initial part and weakly convex last whorl. First teleoconch whorl weakly convex with indistinct subsutural spiral cord. Commashaped riblets crossed by weak spiral cords on later teleoconch whorls resulting in beaded appearance. Whorl profile slightly angulated at mid-whorl. Last preserved whorl with slightly protruding weakly beaded shoulder. Base low, moderately constricted.

Discussion. The status of this species is unclear as only juvenile specimens are known. Its early whorl sculpture differs from other Sarmatian species such as Olegia doderleini ( Hörnes, 1854) , O. mandici nov. sp. and O. rumana ( Simionescu & Barbu, 1940) . The beads on the axial riblets on early teleoconch whorls are reminiscent of the Sarmatian Granulatocincta callim nov. sp., but the latter develops well-defined beads at the abapical suture at same growth stage and a central spiral cord of delicate beads.

Paleoenvironment. Coastal inner neritic ( Lukeneder et al. 2011).

Distribution in Central Paratethys. Sarmatian (middle Miocene): Pannonian Basin: Soceni ( Romania) ( Jekelius 1944).