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Turrilites costatus

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae

Taxonomy
Turrilites costata was named by Lamarck (1801) [DISTRIBUTION: Cenomanian; Cosmopolitan.]. It is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Turrilites, Turrilites (Turrilites).

It was recombined as Turrilites (Turrilites) costatus by Förster (1975), Atabekyan (1985), Zaborski (1985), Kennedy and Simmons (1991) and Kennedy (1994); it was corrected as Turrilites costatus by Kennedy et al. (1981), Alabushev (1995), Wilmsen and Nagm (2014), Sharifi et al. (2016) and Mosavinia and Wilmsen (2017).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. borssumensis, T. peruviana, T. aumalensis

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1801Turrilites costata Lamarck p. 102
1850Turrilites triplicatus Sowerby
1958Turrilites pachecoensis Anderson
1975Turrilites (Turrilites) costatus Förster p. 191 figs. Pl 7, fig 9; text-fig 53
1981Turrilites costatus Kennedy et al. p. 211
1985Turrilites (Turrilites) costatus Atabekyan p. 79 figs. Pl 31, figs 1-5
1985Turrilites (Turrilites) costatus Zaborski p. 10 fig. 9,10
1991Turrilites (Turrilites) costatus Kennedy and Simmons p. 145
1994Turrilites (Turrilites) costatus Kennedy p. 232
1995Turrilites costatus Alabushev figs. 3I-L
2014Turrilites costatus Wilmsen and Nagm p. 230 fig. 14
2016Turrilites costatus Sharifi et al. p. 606 fig. 9
2017Turrilites costatus Mosavinia and Wilmsen p. 122 fig. 5F

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyTurrilitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyTurrilitidaeGill 1871
genusTurrilitesLamarck 1801
speciescostatus(Lamarck 1801)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Turrilites costatus Lamarck 1801
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Invalid names: Turrilites pachecoensis Anderson 1958 [synonym], Turrilites triplicatus Sowerby 1850 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (66 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Switzerland Turrilites costatus (2163 2236)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9USA (California) Turrilites costatus (86820 224961 224964)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Germany Turrilites costatus (66734 66779)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9France (Normandie) Turrilites costatus (230777 230797)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9France Turrilites costatus (56675)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9France (Haute-Normandie) Turrilites costatus (230857)
Cenomanian - Maastrichtian100.5 - 66.0United Kingdom (Sussex) Turrilites triplicatus (235797)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France (Normandie) Turrilites costatus (230776)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (New Mexico) Turrilites costatus (179775 179779)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5United Kingdom (England) Turrilites costatus (49496 82814)
Early/Lower Cenomanian - Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Germany (Westphalia) Turrilites costatus (4070)
Early/Lower Cenomanian - Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France Turrilites costatus (230858)
Early/Lower Cenomanian - Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (California) Turrilites pachecoensis (215576)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5United Kingdom (England) Turrilites costatus (82797 82809 82810 82857 82899 82913 82919)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Russian Federation Turrilites costatus (84221)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Oman Turrilites costatus (82359)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Germany (Sachsen) Turrilites costatus (172073)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Russian Federation Turrilites costatus (169544 169545)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Germany Turrilites costatus (12402 12403 12404 12405 12406 12407 12408 12409 12410 12460 12461 12462 12463 12464 12465 12466 12467)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (New Mexico) Turrilites costatus (139003)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Kazakhstan Turrilites costatus (186752 186754)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Australia (Northern Territory) Turrilites costatus (13944 13946)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France (Normandy) Turrilites costatus (4025 4027)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Nigeria Turrilites costatus (69627 69628)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Iran Turrilites costatus (174335 183701)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Turkmenistan Turrilites costatus (186753)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Mozambique Turrilites costatus (174799)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Germany (Westphalia) Turrilites costatus (4067)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5United Kingdom (England) Turrilites costatus (78588 78591 78593)