Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Alternative spelling: Turritella (Torquesia)
Parent taxon: Turritellinae according to W. D. Allmon 1996
See also Abbass 1962, Abbass 1967, Adegoke 1977, Kase 1984, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Archimediella, Banzarecolpus, Callostracum, Coeloconica, Colposigma, Colpospira, Gazameda, Hataiella, Idaella, Maoricolpus, Neohaustator, Nipponocolpus, Oligodia, Reymentella, Sechuritella, Spirocolpus, Tachyrhynchus, Tropicolpus, Turritella, Wyatella, Wyattella, Zaria, Zeacolpus, Kamchatkella, Armatus
Subtaxa: Torquesia (Ispharina) Torquesia oppenheimi Turritella (Torquesia) abbassi Turritella (Torquesia) akkadi Turritella (Torquesia) boghosi Turritella (Torquesia) carinifera Turritella (Torquesia) elicitatoides Turritella (Torquesia) faizai Turritella (Torquesia) granulata Turritella (Torquesia) hassani Turritella (Torquesia) mahmoudi Turritella (Torquesia) nazikae Turritella (Torquesia) pharaonica Turritella (Torquesia) saharica Turritella (Torquesia) tamra Turritella (Torquesia) vibrayeana Turritella (Torquesia) wagihi
Type: Turritella granulata
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Namibia (1 collection), South Africa (10)
• Pliocene of South Africa (3)
• Miocene of Libya (1), South Africa (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (6), France (2), Italy (1), Nigeria (8), the United Kingdom (10)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Colombia (2), Egypt (2), Germany (2), Nigeria (1), United States (1: Maryland)
• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Egypt (2), Germany (3), Japan (7), the United Kingdom (11)
Total: 77 collections including 88 occurrences
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