Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Alternative combination: Turrilites acutus
Synonyms: Turrilites (Turrilites) dilleri Murphy and Rodda 1960, Turrilites dearingi Stephenson 1952, Turrilites tevesthensis Coquand 1862, Turrilites wiestii Sharpe 1857
Belongs to Turrilites (Turrilites) according to W. J. Kennedy 1994
See also Atabekyan 1985, Förster 1975, Howarth 1985, Kennedy et al. 1988, Murphy and Rodda 1960 and Zaborski 1985
Sister taxa: none
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (2 collections), France (5), Germany (2), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (2), Mexico (1), Nigeria (1), Turkmenistan (12), the United Kingdom (6), United States (7: California, New Mexico, Texas)
Total: 39 collections including 40 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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