Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Parent taxon: Turrilitoidea according to A. Tajika et al. 2018
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Atabekyan 1985, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Gale et al. 2018, Henderson 1990, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy et al. 1998, Kennedy et al. 1980, Kennedy et al. 1981, Kennedy and Morris 2018, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Matsumoto 1984, Mosavinia et al. 2014, Mosavinia and Wilmsen 2017, Sharifi et al. 2016, Summesberger 1979, Summesberger 1980, Szives 2007, Wright 1952 and Wright 1979
Sister taxa: Anisoceratidae, Baculitidae, Diplomoceratidae, Hamitidae, Nostoceratidae, Plesiohamites
Subtaxa: Carthaginites Hypoturrilites Mariella Mesoturrilites Neostlingoceras Notostreptites Ostlingoceratinae Proturrilitoides Pseudhelicoceras Pseudohelicoceras Turrilites Turrilitinae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (6 collections), Antarctica (3), Armenia (1), Australia (3), Azerbaijan (4), Brazil (3), Canada (6: British Columbia), Colombia (5), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (65), Germany (23), India (5), Iran (7), Italy (1), Japan (7), Kazakhstan (12), Madagascar (16), Mexico (11), Mozambique (4), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (4), Oman (1), Peru (3), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (4), Tanzania (1), Turkmenistan (67), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (29), United States (59: California, Colorado, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 362 collections including 578 occurrences