Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Parent taxon: Turrilitidae according to W. J. Kennedy and N. J. Morris 2018
See also Atabekyan 1985, Förster 1975, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy and Cobban 1993, Mosavinia and Wilmsen 2017 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Carthaginites, Mariella, Mesoturrilites, Neostlingoceras, Notostreptites, Ostlingoceratinae, Proturrilitoides, Pseudhelicoceras, Pseudohelicoceras, Turrilites, Turrilitinae
Subtaxa: Hypoturrilites betaitraensis Hypoturrilites cricki Hypoturrilites gravesianus Hypoturrilites intersignus Hypoturrilites laevigatus Hypoturrilites mantelli Hypoturrilites obliquus Hypoturrilites primus Hypoturrilites taxyfabreae Hypoturrilites tenouklensis Hypoturrilites tuberculatoplicatus Hypoturrilites tuberculatus Hypoturrilites wiedmanni Hypoturrilites youngi
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Australia (2 collections), Azerbaijan (1), Brazil (1), France (10), Germany (2), Iran (2), Kazakhstan (4), Madagascar (8), Mozambique (1), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), Turkmenistan (20), the United Kingdom (12), United States (3: California, Texas)
Total: 68 collections including 95 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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