Conus melficus

Conus melficus (Desio, 1929)

Description ⁽¹⁾:

Material: One internal mold.

Occurance: Gabal Homeira (bed 13).

Remarks: Conus (Conolithus) melficus Desio is more cylindrical than Conus mercati, Brocchi and has a prominent conical spire.

Distribution: Miocene of the north Westren Desert; Burdigalian of Agrud and Sadat areas

Description(5):

Mold of small size, biconical; spire conical with concave sides, numerous low whorls; suture subcardinal; body whorl high, conical, with narrow concave posterior shoulder; aperture narrow, long; parallel inner and outer lips.

Occurrence: This species is recorded in Gabal Homeira section, bed no. 13.

Remarks: Conus (Conolithus) melficus Desio is more cylindrical than C. mercati, Brocchi and has a prominent conical spire.

Distribution: Desio (1929) recorded this species from the Miocene of the North Westren Desert; Hamam (1966) recorded it from from the Burdigalian of Agrud area; and Abdel-Moneim (1992) recorded it from the Sadat and Hommath Formations in the Sadat area.

Age: Burdigalian.


Conus melficus ⁽¹⁾ Plate 3 fig. 11 mm. 32,6	Conus melficus ⁽²⁾
Conus melficus 1929 - Conus (Dendroconus) melficus Desio,279, pl.37, fig. 4. ⁽⁴⁾ 1966 - Conus melficus Desio; Hamam,pl. 10, fig. 9. ⁽²⁾ 1992 - Conus (Conolithus) melficus Desio; Abed-Elmoniem,149, pl.8, fig. 6. ⁽³⁾

Conus sp. GAS005 mm. 50 x 20 ca. Gastropod fossils from the Aruwakkalu region in Sri Lanka. (a, b & d) Fragmentary preserved mold fossil specimens of Conus sp. from the active quarry (GAS005) with a dorsal view on the left and ventral view on the right ⁽⁶⁾.

Bibliografia Consultata

(1) - Abdel Baset S. EL-SOROGY, Ezzat ABD-ELSHAFY, Mohamed ABD-ELMONEIM, and Ahmed MOWAFI (2005) “STRATIGRAPHY, PALEONTOLOGY AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS OF SOME EXPOSED MIOCENE SEDIMENTS IN CAIRO-SUEZ DISTRICT, EGYPT”
(2) - Hamam, K. A. 1966: Stratigraphy and paleontology of the area northwest of Suez. M.Sc. Thesis, Fac. Sci., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo.
(3) - Abd-Elmoniem, M. 1992: Stratigraphy of the Miocene rocks in the area between Gabal Ataqa and northern Galala, Gulf of Suez, Egypt. PhD. Th., Fac. Sci.,Zagazig Univ., 252p.
(4) – Ardito Desio (1929): Resultati Scientifici della Missione alla Oasi Di Giarabub. Fasc.III,1926-1927 : La Paleontologia. R. Soc. Geogr. Italiana, Rome,4
(5) - STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF SOME MIOCENE SEDIMENTS IN THE CAIRO-SUEZ DISTRICT, EGYPT. A Thesis By Ahmed Eid Mowafi ( B.Sc. In Geology, 1986 )
(6) - “Invertebrate Macrofossils in the Early to Middle Miocene Sedimentary Sequence of Aruwakkalu, Northwestern Sri Lanka: Biostratigraphic and Paleoenvironmental Implications” R.M.I.M. Rathnayake, P.L. Dharmapriya* and G. Edirisooriya