Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Alternative spelling: Pyrgiscus
Parent taxon: Turbonilla according to A. J. W. Hendy 2007
See also Addicott 1970, Aldrich 1911, Arnold 1903, Darragh 2017, Martin 1904, Oldroyd 1925, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Rissoa (Turbonilla) gracilior, Turbonilla (Lancea), Turbonilla (Mormula), Turbonilla (Pyrgolidium), Turbonilla (Sulcurturbonilla), Turbonilla (Terebronilla), Turbonilla (Tragula), Turbonilla (Turbonilla), Turbonilla acicula, Turbonilla aepynota, Turbonilla alpina, Turbonilla arnoldi, Turbonilla asser, Turbonilla buttoni, Turbonilla cancellata, Turbonilla caroliniana, Turbonilla cuevensis, Turbonilla dunnensis, Turbonilla exarata, Turbonilla filosa, Turbonilla gracillima, Turbonilla hemphilli, Turbonilla hypolispa, Turbonilla internodula, Turbonilla interrupta, Turbonilla kernensis, Turbonilla kraussi, Turbonilla letzia, Turbonilla levis, Turbonilla lineata, Turbonilla madrynensis, Turbonilla major, Turbonilla marshensis, Turbonilla mumia, Turbonilla ornata, Turbonilla quinquestriata, Turbonilla rixtae, Turbonilla smithi, Turbonilla speira, Turbonilla stearnsii, Turbonilla striata, Turbonilla stylina, Turbonilla subcoronata, Turbonilla subulata, Turbonilla terebra, Turbonilla torquata, Turbonilla valdezi, Turbonilla zekelii
Subtaxa: Pyrgiscus antestriatus Pyrgiscus auricoma Pyrgiscus himertus Pyrgiscus laminatus Pyrgiscus latifundius Pyrgiscus moerchi Pyrgiscus tenuiculus Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) agrestis Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) bravoensis Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) hormigacuesta Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) senistriata
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), China (1), Costa Rica (1), Mexico (5), United States (23: California, North Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Belgium (3), Italy (1), Panama (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: California, Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (7)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (3), New Zealand (2), Panama (8), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: California), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Australia (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Paleocene of Greenland (1)
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 72 collections including 113 occurrences