Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Parent taxon: Turrilitidae according to A. Mosavinia and M. Wilmsen 2017
See also Atabekyan 1985, Förster 1975, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy et al. 1981, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Matsumoto 1959, Reyment 1955, Sepkoski 2002, Sharifi et al. 2016 and Zaborski 1985
Sister taxa: Carthaginites, Hypoturrilites, Mariella, Mesoturrilites, Neostlingoceras, Notostreptites, Ostlingoceratinae, Proturrilitoides, Pseudhelicoceras, Pseudohelicoceras, Turrilitinae
Subtaxa: Turrilites (Carthaginites) Turrilites (Euturrilites) Turrilites (Turrilites) Turrilites acutus Turrilites costatus Turrilites giganteus Turrilites multipunctatus Turrilites oregonensis Turrilites scheuchzerianus Turrilites tuberculata
Type: Turrilites costata
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2 collections), Angola (2), Australia (2), Brazil (2), Denmark (1), France (14), Germany (22), Iran (3), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (5), Madagascar (3), Mexico (5), Mozambique (1), Nigeria (4), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (3), Turkmenistan (20), the United Kingdom (17), United States (22: California, Colorado, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas)
Total: 136 collections including 179 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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