« This singular fossil is thick, very smooth, humped; with four slightly raised whorls of spire, almost flat, sculpted with small longitudinal furrows that are barely noticeable and barely visible. » – A. Risso: Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l’Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes tome 4, Paris 1826, p.172 about the synonym Elone inflata.