Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Alternative combination: Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus
Synonyms: Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus americanus Cobban and Scott 1972, Turrilites (Turrilites) dilleri Murphy and Rodda 1960, Turrilites dearingi Stephenson 1952, Turrilites tevesthensis Coquand 1862, Turrilites wiestii Sharpe 1857
Belongs to Turrilites according to P. L. Sealey and S. G. Lucas 2019
See also Atabekyan 1985, Förster 1975, Howarth 1985, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 1988, Murphy and Rodda 1960 and Zaborski 1985
Sister taxa: Turrilites (Carthaginites), Turrilites (Euturrilites), Turrilites (Turrilites), Turrilites costatus, Turrilites giganteus, Turrilites multipunctatus, Turrilites oregonensis, Turrilites scheuchzerianus, Turrilites tuberculata
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 (6: California, New Mexico, Texas)
Total: 38 collections including 39 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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