Kohniconus patstreamae (Petuch, 1994)

Description ⁽³⁾: Shell large for sub-genus, elongated, broad across shoulder, with flattened spire; shoul-der sharply-angled, with non-carinate, slightly-rounded edge; body whorl smooth and polished, with 10 large, wide, deeply-impressed spiral sulci around anterior tip; spire whorls ornamented with 3 very faint spiral threads; aperture throughout; color pattern (when pre-served) composed of 2 wide bands of large, evenly-spaced oval dots. narrow

Holotype: UF66449, Length 78 mm.

Type Locality: Pinecrest Beds Fauna (lowermost beds only), from Petuch Unit 10, APAC pit, Sarasota, Sarasota County.

Remarks: Conus patstreamae is most similar to the younger, strati graphically-higher C. presozoni Olsson and Petit, 1964 (Plate 92, Figure A) from Petuch Unit 7, but differs in being a less-elongated shell with a broader shoulder and much lower, flattened spire, and in having better-developed and more deeply-impressed sulci around the anterior tip.

Etymology: Named for Ms. Patricia Stream of Sarasota, Florida. The holotype was collected by her husband, Mr. Dale Stream.

Bibliografia Consultata

• (1) HENDRICKS, Jonathan R. ,THE GENUS CONUS (MOLLUSCA: NEOGASTROPODA) IN THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES - 2008

• (2) - 2011. Edward J. Petuch & Mardie Drolshagen, Compendium of Florida Fossil Shells, Volume 1 (Middle Miocene to Late Pleistocene Marine Gastropods, families Strombidae, Cypraeidade,, Ovulidae, Eocypraeidae, Tr i v i i d a e, Conidae and Conilithidae). MdM Publishing, Florida, U.S.A

• (3) Petuch (1994) “Atlas of Florida fossil shells : (Pliocene and Pleistocene marine gastopods) “