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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

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