Naticidae, Guilding, 1834

Naticidae View in CoL gen. et sp. indet. 1

Natica aff. millepunctata (Lam.) View in CoL — Grachevsky 1954: 110, pl. 1, fig. 21 [ non Natica millepunctata Lamarck, 1822 View in CoL = Naticarius stercusmuscarum ( Gmelin, 1791) View in CoL ].

Natica ( Nacca) millepunctata Lamck.— Zhgenti 1981: 157 View in CoL , pl. 9, fig. 10 [ non Natica millepunctata Lamarck, 1822 View in CoL = Naticarius stercusmuscarum ( Gmelin, 1791) View in CoL ].

Natica ( Nacca) millepunctata Linné.— Zhgenti 1991: 49 View in CoL , pl. 42, fig. 7 [ non Natica millepunctata Lamarck, 1822 View in CoL = Naticarius stercusmuscarum ( Gmelin, 1791) View in CoL ].

Discussion. Grachevsky (1954) and Zhgenti (1981) provided poor illustrations of juvenile and undeterminable naticid shells from the Konkian below the Pholas Beds and from the Karaganian Varna Beds. Zhgenti refigured her shell later and erroneously dated it as coming from the upper Konkian of Privol’nyi, Russia. However, the shell actually originates from the so-called Ervilia Beds of the basal Konkian. Additional occurrences of “ Polinices helicina (Brocc.) ” were also documented from the basal Konkian of the Black Sea Lowland ( Muratov & Nevesskaja 1986) , and from Georgia (Bidzinashvili 1974: Natica sp. ).

Eastern Paratethys. Early Konkian (Late Miocene): Black Sea Lowland ( Muratov & Nevesskaja 1986) ; Transcaucasia : Bakhioti, Doglauri, Metekhi ( Georgia) ( Grachevsky 1954; Bidzinashvili 1974; Zhgenti 1981).