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Turritella (Torquesia)

Gastropoda - Turritellidae

Taxonomy
Torquesia was named by Douvillé (1929) [Sepkoski's age data: K Vala R Sepkoski's reference number: 614,1066]. It is extant. Its type is Turritella granulata.

It was reranked as Turritella (Torquesia) by Abbass (1962), Abbass (1967) and Moneer et al. (2024).

It was assigned to Turritellidae by Kase (1984); to Turritellinae by Adegoke (1977), Pacaud and Le Renard (1995) and Allmon (1996); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); and to Turritella by Abbass (1962), Abbass (1967) and Moneer et al. (2024).

Subtaxa
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, Turritella (Torquesia) wagihi
Species lacking formal opinion data
Torquesia prehumerosa, Turritella adela, Turritella agronomica, Turritella alcida, Turritella altiliroides, Turritella ameghinoi, Turritella anguillana, Turritella bilara, Turritella bilboraensis, Turritella biplicata, Turritella boycensis, Turritella brankampi, Turritella callizona, Turritella capensis, Turritella carninata, Turritella caseyi, Turritella chalybeatensis, Turritella chichibuensis, Turritella chirena, Turritella claytonensis, Turritella cobbani, Turritella codellana, Turritella collazica, Turritella conspicablis, Turritella crocus, Turritella diastropha, Turritella difficilis, Turritella distincta, Turritella falconensis, Turritella fascialiis, Turritella femina, Turritella fischeri, Turritella forgemoli, Turritella gardnerae, Turritella hilli, Turritella jenkinsi, Turritella kauffmani, Turritella knysnaensis, Turritella kowiensis, Turritella laevissima, Turritella leonensis, Turritella lineolta, Turritella litharia, Turritella malaspina, Turritella malaspina, Turritella mcnairyensis, Turritella megalobasis, Turritella meunieri, Turritella millepunctata, Turritella ministeri, Turritella molarium, Turritella monserratensis, Turritella multilinata, Turritella mundula, Turritella neusensis, Turritella novaesemljae, Turritella paraensis, Turritella pedroana, Turritella pelusae, Turritella perrieri, Turritella pirabica, Turritella pliorecens, Turritella pllanigyrata, Turritella pontoni, Turritella poronaiensis, Turritella premimetes, Turritella premortoni, Turritella rostrata, Turritella rubricollis, Turritella soaresana, Turritella soaresana, Turritella submortoni, Turritella tanaguraensis, Turritella trilara, Turritella triplicata, Turritella turneri, Turritella wagneriana, Turritella waltonensis, Turritella wasana, Turritella webbi, Turritella wiedenmayeri
Sister taxa
Torquesia (Ispharina)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1929Torquesia Douvillé
1962Turritella (Torquesia) Abbass p. 182
1967Turritella (Torquesia) Abbass p. 21
1977Torquesia Adegoke p. 91
1984Torquesia Kase p. 121
1995Torquesia Pacaud and Le Renard p. 157
1996Torquesia Allmon p. 10
2002Torquesia Sepkoski
2024Turritella (Torquesia) Moneer et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyCerithioidea(Férussac 1819)
familyTurritellidaeLovén 1847
subfamilyTurritellinaeLovén 1847
genusTurritellaLamarck 1799
subgenusTorquesia(Douvillé 1929)

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.

Subg. Turritella (Torquesia) Douvillé 1929
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Subg. †Torquesia (Ispharina) Vjalov and Solun 1963
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†Ispharina sulcifera Deshayes 1832
†Turritella (Ispharina) tarturensis Awad and Abed 1967
†Torquesia oppenheimi Adegoke 1977
†Turritella (Torquesia) abbassi Awad and Abed 1967
†Turritella (Torquesia) akkadi Awad and Abed 1967
†Turritella (Torquesia) nazikae Awad and Abed 1967
†Turritella (Torquesia) saharica Awad and Abed 1967
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100g
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Adult height: 10 to < 100g
Thickness: thing
Folds: noneg
Ribbing: minorg
Spines: noneg
Internal reinforcement: noneg
Locomotion: facultatively mobileg
Life habit: semi-infaunalg
Diet: suspension feederg
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2004-02-29 18:26:02
Modified: 2018-03-04 19:51:38
Source: g = genus, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 122.46000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (87 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0United Kingdom (England) Turritella granulata (86972 86973) Turritella tamra (86974)
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Japan Torquesia yaegashii (91260 91285 91286 91287 91288 91290 91296)
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Egypt Turritella moradi (151611)
Albian113.0 - 100.5United Kingdom (England) Turritella faizai (86977) Turritella granulata (51597 51674) Turritella vibrayeana (86976) Turritella vibrayeana, Turritella wagihi (86975)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Egypt Turritella moradi (98327)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6United Kingdom (England) Turritella granulata (6280 51673)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Germany Torquesia granulata, Torquesia vibrayeana (66734 66776) Torquesia vibrayeana (66779)
Early/Lower Cenomanian - Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5United Kingdom (England) Turritella granulata (86971)
Santonian86.3 - 83.6Austria Torquesia rigida (74489)
Late/Upper Santonian85.8 - 83.5Austria Torquesia rigida (177758)
Early/Lower Paleocene66.0 - 61.7Egypt (Western Desert) Turritella nazikae (3153)
Danian66.0 - 61.6USA (Maryland) Torquesia prehumerosa (83135)
Danian66.0 - 61.6Colombia (Guajira) Turritella eliciloides (99141)
Danian66.0 - 61.6Belgium Torquesia coemansi (3118)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0Egypt Turritella tarturensis, Turritella abbassi, Turritella saharica, Turritella akkadi, Turritella nazikae (2953)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0Germany Torquesia coemansi (3114 3116)
Selandian61.6 - 59.2Colombia Turritella elicitatoides (180400)
Selandian61.6 - 59.2Nigeria Torquesia oppenheimi (7791)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8United Kingdom (England) Ispharina sulcifera (3266 3267 3268)
Early/Lower Eocene - Middle Eocene55.8 - 37.71United Kingdom (England) Ispharina sulcifera (3257)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Egypt Turritella naimi (2955) Turritella pharaonica (41905)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3United Kingdom (England) Ispharina terebellata (8125) Ispharina terebellata, Ispharina sulcifera (8124) Turritella sulcifera (8047 8048)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Nigeria Turritella sulcifera (51239 51240 51241 51242 51243 51244 51245 51246)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0Egypt Turritella carinifera, Turritella pharaonica (2960) Turritella mahmoudi (2961) Turritella pharaonica (234893 234895 234896)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0France Turritella sulcifera, Turritella carinifera (78567)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0Egypt (Fayum) Turritella pharaonica (235098)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0France (Oise) Turritella sulcifera (3494)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0United Kingdom (England) Turritella sulcifera (40523 40530)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Egypt Turritella pharaonica (79700 184745 234886 234890 234891 234892)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Egypt (Fayum) Turritella pharaonica (74738 235099)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Italy Turritella sulcifera, Turritella carinifera (78565)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Libya Turritella sulcifera (42143)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) Turritella carinifera (41473)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588South Africa (Cape) Turritella carinifera (179484)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588South Africa (Western Cape) Turritella carinifera (118317 118318)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781South Africa (Western Cape) Turritella carinifera (118303 118308 118311)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Namibia (Karas) Turritella carinifera (124048)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117South Africa Turritella carinifera (122933 122937 122940 122941 122943 122945)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117South Africa (Western Cape) Turritella carinifera (110492)