Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Alternative spelling: Turritella (Torcula)
Parent taxon: Turritellidae according to G. Rosenberg 2005
See also Addicott 1970, Allmon 1996, Gardner 1943, Gardner 1947, Gardner 1948, Ladd 1972, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002 and Titova 1994
Sister taxa: Actaeonema, Caucasella, Colpospirella, Cristispira, Eligmostoma, Haustator, Incatella, Kapalmerella, Mariacolpus, Nairiella, Omalaxinae, Orectospirinae, Palmerella, Pareorinae, Protominae, Springvaleia, Torquesiella, Trobus, Turriola, Turritellinae, Turritellopsinae, Turritellopsis, Vermiculariinae
Subtaxa: Torcula (Eurytorus) Torcula (Torcula) Torcula acropora Torcula bayeri Torcula lindae Turritella (Torcula) exoletus Turritella (Torcula) terstriata Turritella (Torcula) variabilis
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (9: Florida, North Carolina collections)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), United States (8: Florida, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Brazil (1), Panama (20), United States (32: Florida, Maryland)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Paleocene of Libya (1), United States (1: Maryland)
Total: 77 collections including 86 occurrences
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