Description of a new Turritellinella (Caenogastropoda: Turritellidae) from the Middle Miocene of the Central Paratethys Sea

A new Paratethyan turritellid gastropod species, Turritellinella devinensis spec. nov., is described from the Upper Badenian (Middle Miocene) marine deposits of the Studienka Formation, Vienna Basin, Slovakia. The shells were found at the fossil-bearing locality near Rohožnik and in several localities situated in the vicinity of Devin (borough of Bratislava) situated on the southern slope of the Devinska Kobyla Hill. T. devinensis spec. nov. is discussed and compared with other morphologically similar species. The habitat of the Badenian populations from the eastern margin of the Vienna Basin is specified and compared with the ecological conditions of extant T. tricarinata in present-day European seas.