Turboella Leach in Gray 1847 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae

Alternative spellings: Rissoa (Turboella), Turbella

Parent taxon: Rissoidae according to M. Harzhauser 2002

See also Marquet 1997, Palmer 1923 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Actonia, Alvania, Ampulospira luda, Benthonella, Boreocingula, Buvignieria, Folinia, Hudlestoniella, Lapsigyrus, Merelina, Microstelma, Mohrensterniinae, Ottoina, Ovirissoa, Powellisetia, Pusillina, Rissoa, Rissocerithium, Rissoina, Rissoinae, Rissoininae, Setia, Simulamerelina, Stosicia, Striatestea, Thierachella, Tournoueria, Voorwindia, Zebina, Zebinostoma

Subtaxa: Rissoa (Turboella) curticostata Rissoa (Turboella) obsoleta Turbella elegans Turboella acuticosta Turboella turbinata

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (1 collection), the Netherlands (4), the United Kingdom (7)

• Pliocene of Belgium (3), the United Kingdom (1)

• Miocene of Australia (3), Austria (3), Italy (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1)

• Oligocene of Belgium (4), France (36)

• Eocene of France (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: Alabama, California, Texas)

• Paleocene of Belgium (1)

• Cretaceous of Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (14: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)

Total: 95 collections including 99 occurrences

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