Klikia

Salvador, Rodrigo B., 2014, The fossil land and freshwater snails of Gündlkofen (Middle Miocene, Germany), Zootaxa 3785 (2), pp. 271-287 : 276

Klikia cf. c oarctata ( Klein, 1853)

(Fig. 14)

Helix c oarctata Klein, 1853: 206 (pl. 5, fig. 6).

Klikia (Apula) coarctata coarctata: Wenz, 1923: 534 .

Klikia (Apula) coarctata: Schlickum, 1976: 17 (pl. 4, fig. 60); Kókay, 2006: 92. Klikia (Apula) cf. coarctata coarctata: Gall, 1980: 60 .

Klikia cf. coarctata : Salvador, 2013b: 161 (figs. 6–9).

Material examined. BSPG 1952 XVIII 7 (1 spcm.).

Description. Shell small, depressed. Protoconch blunt, wide, smooth. Teleoconch sculptured by regularly distributed fine papillae, giving the impression of axial striae. Whorls’ profile slightly convex. Suture well-marked, deep. Whorls regularly increasing in size. Aperture crescent-shaped.

Previous identification of the material. Gall (1980: Nr. 14): Klikia (Apula) cf. coarctata coarctata (Klein) .

Discussion. The single specimen from Gündlkofen, despite being slightly deformed, compares fittingly with K. coarctata , a species from the Middle Miocene of southern Germany (MN 5–6; Klein 1853; Schlickum 1976; Salvador 2013b). However, a more certain identification is not possible, since one of the main features of this species, a covered umbilicus ( Klein 1853; Harzhauser & Binder 2004), cannot be observed.

Paleoecological remarks. As a fossil genus, comparison with living relatives is somewhat tentative. Nevertheless, Lueger (1981) suggested that species in this genus preferred drier environments.