Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Alternative combinations: Turrilites (Turrilites) costatus, Turrilites costata
Synonyms: Turrilites pachecoensis Anderson 1958, Turrilites triplicatus Sowerby 1850
Belongs to Turrilites according to A. Mosavinia and M. Wilmsen 2017
See also Alabushev 1995, Atabekyan 1985, Förster 1975, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 1981, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Sharifi et al. 2016, Wilmsen and Nagm 2014 and Zaborski 1985
Sister taxa: Turrilites (Carthaginites), Turrilites (Euturrilites), Turrilites (Turrilites), Turrilites acutus, Turrilites giganteus, Turrilites multipunctatus, Turrilites oregonensis, Turrilites scheuchzerianus, Turrilites tuberculata
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Australia (2 collections), France (8), Germany (22), Iran (2), Kazakhstan (2), Mozambique (1), Nigeria (2), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (3), Switzerland (2), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (7: California, New Mexico)
Total: 66 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.