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) tamra, Turritella (Torquesia) vibrayeana

Type specimen: GSM 93745, a shell. Its type locality is Folkestone, Gault (BMNH collection), which is in an Albian carbonate chalk in the Gault Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Folkestone, Gault (BMNH collection)

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