Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Full reference: H. L. Abbass. 1962. The english Cretaceous Turritellide and Mathildidae (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 7(6):175-196

Belongs to Turritella (Torquesia) according to H. L. Abbass 1962

Sister taxa: 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) vibrayeana, Turritella (Torquesia) wagihi

Type specimen: SM B. 27329, a shell. Its type locality is Atherfield, Isle of Wright [Lower Greensand], which is in an Aptian coastal sandstone in the United Kingdom.

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Atherfield, Isle of Wright [Lower Greensand]

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