Figovina sarmatica ( Friedberg, 1938 ), 2025

Figovina sarmatica ( Friedberg, 1938) nov. comb.

Figs 48C–E View FIGURE 48

Natica helicina Brocc.—Hörnes 1856: 525 View in CoL (pars) [ non Euspira helicina ( Brocchi, 1814) View in CoL ].

Natica aff. helicina View in CoL — Laskarev 1903: 45, pl. 5, fig. 26.

* [ Natica helicina Brocc. View in CoL ] var. sarmatica Friedb.— Friedberg 1938: 67 , text-fig. 15.

Natica millepunctata Lam.— Simionescu & Barbu 1940: 67 View in CoL , text-fig. 80 [ non Natica millepunctata Lamarck, 1822 View in CoL = Naticarius stercusmuscarum ( Gmelin, 1791) View in CoL ].

Natica catena sarmatica n. ssp. — Papp 1954: 47, pl. 9, figs 11–14.

L [ unatia]. catena sarmatica Papp— Sieber 1958: 140 .

Natica catena helicina Brocc.— Boda 1959: 716 View in CoL , pl. 27, figs 13–15 [ non Euspira helicina ( Brocchi, 1814) View in CoL ].

Polinices ( Euspira) catena var. helicina ( Brocchi, 1814) —Kojumdgieva 1960: 120, pl. 33, figs 10–11 [ non Euspira helicina ( Brocchi, 1814) View in CoL ].

Natica catena helicina View in CoL — Roshka 1964: pl. 2, figs 10–11 [ non Euspira helicina ( Brocchi, 1814) View in CoL ].

Polinices ( Euspira) catena helicina ( Brocchi, 1814) — Kojumdgieva 1969: 100, pl. 34, figs 17–19 [ non Euspira helicina ( Brocchi, 1814) View in CoL ].

Lunatia catena sarmatica (Papp) — Papp 1974: 349, pl. 2, figs 23–25.

Lunatia catena sarmatica ( Friedberg 1938) — Reischütz 2000: 24.

Euspira helicina sarmatica (Papp) — Piller & Harzhauser 2005: 452.

Euspira helicina ( Brocchi, 1814) View in CoL — Mandic et al. 2008: 347 [ non Euspira helicina ( Brocchi, 1814) View in CoL ].

Euspira helicina sarmatica (Papp) — Harzhauser & Piller 2010: 194.

Euspira helicina sarmatica — Nováková et al. 2020: 295.

Type material. Lectotype (designated herein): SL: 8.5 mm, MD: 8.0 mm, Chmielnik ( Poland), not seen by us, illustrated in Friedberg (1938: text-fig. 15).

Illustrated material. NHMW 2024/0242/0001, SL: 7.5 mm, MD: 8.1 mm, Siebenhirten ( Austria), illustrated in Papp (1954: pl. 9, fig. 12), Figs 46C View FIGURE 46 1 –C View FIGURE 1 4 View FIGURE 4 . NHMW 2024/0242/0002, SL: 7.5 mm, MD: 8.6 mm, Siebenhirten ( Austria), illustrated in Papp (1954: pl. 9, fig. 13), Figs 46D View FIGURE 46 1 –D View FIGURE 1 4 View FIGURE 4 . NHMW 2024/0242/0004, SL: 7.5 mm, MD: 6.9 mm, Siebenhirten ( Austria), Figs 46E View FIGURE 46 1 –E View FIGURE 1 3 View FIGURE 3 .

Additional material. 21 spec., NHMW 2024 View Materials /0242/0005, Siebenhirten ( Austria) .

Revised description. Very small globose-ovate shell of about four teleoconch whorls; only slightly higher than wide ( SL /MD = ~1.1). Protoconch not preserved. Spire weakly elevated, broad conical, with very weakly convex whorls; apical angle ~105–130°. Suture linear, narrowly impressed. Teleoconch whorls with narrow, weakly concave subsutural ramp; faint, rounded shoulder. Last whorl weakly expanding, regularly convex, attaining ~92% of total height. Periphery below mid-whorl (~43%). Growth lines delicate, prosocline. Aperture moderately wide, ovate, prosocline. Position of adapical tip of aperture high (~87%), above mid-whorl, distinctly below shoulder. Aperture attaining ~80–85% of total height. Columellar lip weakly reinforced, basal lip and outer lip thin. Columellar angle ~20–30°. Opercular ridge not developed. Umbilicus moderately narrow (~13%), deep, semicircular. Parietal callus very long (~61%), weakly thickened, not expanding over base, with concave margin.Anterior lobe of parietal callus prominent, thickened, fused with narrow, trigonal umbilical callus. Funicle subobsolete, very broad, low. Basal fasciole broad, solid, rounded. Umbilicus abapically delimited by spiral ridge bent towards interior of umbilicus. Color pattern not preserved.

Discussion. This is the only naticid species from the Sarmatian of the Paratethys Sea but was restricted to the early Volhynian part of the Sarmatian, comparable to the turritellid Ptychidia sarmatica ( Papp, 1954) ( Harzhauser & Landau 2019) . Its Badenian ancestor might be Figovina yasenivensis nov. sp. Euspira protracta ( Eichwald, 1830) is much larger and differs in its higher spire. Euspira eblera ( De Gregorio, 1885) is morphologically similar but is larger and differs in its bifid anterior lobe and umbilical callus.

Paleoecology. Shallow marine, inner neritic, partly in vicinity of tidal mudflats ( Mandic et al. 2008).

Distribution in Central Paratethys. Sarmatian (Middle Miocene): Polish-Ukrainian Fore-Carpathian Basin: Chmielnik, Dwikozy ( Poland), Zalistsi ( Ternopil Region, Ukraine), ( Friedberg 1938); North Alpine Foreland Basin: Hollabrunn/Aspersdorf ( Austria) ( Mandic et al. 2008); Vienna Basin: Hauskirchen, Hautzendorf, Mistelbach, Nexing, Siebenhirten, Vienna /Nussdorf, ( Austria) ( Papp 1954; Papp 1974; Reischütz 2000; Harzhauser & Piller 2011), Podivín (= Kostel) ( Czech Republic) ( Papp 1954); Danube Basin: Lontov ( Slovakia) ( Nováková et al. 2020); Pannonian Basin: Galgagyörk ( Hungary) ( Boda 1959); Dacian Basin: Belotintsi, Dolna Byala, Deleina, Drazhintsi, Kula, Pisarovo, Staropatitsa, Studeno Buche, Voinitsi ( Bulgaria) ( Kojumdgieva 1969); Moldavian Platform: Florești ( Moldova) ( Simionescu & Barbu 1940).