Conus (Conasprella)  hyshugari (Petuch, 1994)

 

Description (2): Shell of average size for subgenus, with stocky, broad body whorl and very high, protracted, scalariform spire; shoulder sharply-angled, edged with large, rounded carina; body whorl smooth and polished, with 10-12 deeply-impressed spiral sulci around anterior one-half; aperture narrow, widening toward anterior.

Holotype:UF66438, Length 28 mm.

Type Locality: Bermont Fauna, from North New River Canal dredging, 20 miles south of South Bay, Palm Beach County.

Remarks: Conus hyshugari is most similar to the much older, strati-graphically-lower C. jaclynae n. sp. (Plate 94, Figure H) from the Pinecrest Beds (Kissimmee) Fauna, but differs in being a wider, less elongated shell with a broader shoulder and thicker, much more rounded shoulder carina. Some specimens of C. hyshugari may have strong pustules on the body whorl.

Etymology: Named for Hyman Shugar, M.D. of Weston, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

 

 

 

Conus hyshugari
holotype (1)
mm. 28,2 x 14,2
 
Conus hyshugari
mm. 32
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Ancient Seas of Southern Florida 
The Geology and Paleontology of the Everglades Region
 
By Edward J. Petuch , David P. Berschauer
 

 

 

 

 

 
Conus hyshugari
mm. 20,2 x 9,6
Pliocene - Pleistocene – Bermont formation
[AZFC N. 271-00]

 

 

 

Conus hyshugari holotype (1)
mm. 28,2 x 14,2
 
Conus hyshugari
mm. 25,5
Conus hyshugari
mm. 24,9
 
Conus hyshugari
mm. 20,2 x 9,6
[AZFC N. 271-00]
 
Collected in the Holey Land of the Bermont Formation in the 2000’son Oct 28, 2001.Palm Beach Aggregates Pit, Loxahatchee, Florida. Calabrian Pleistocene 780,000-1.8 M.Y.A. Coll: Herbert Waldron with Dr. Ed Petuch
 
Holey Land of the Bermont Formation in the 1990’s Palm Beach Aggregates, Pit #9 Loxahatchee Palm Beach County, Florida.
Calabrian Pleistocene 780,000-1.8 M.Y.A.
Coll: Herbert Waldron with Dr. Ed Petuch
 

 

 

 

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