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Turrilitidae

Turrilitidae

Overview

Turrilitidae Gill, 1871

Common Name: 

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Shell is tightly coiled into a spiral and may have ribbing or other ornamentation. Suture lines asymmetrical following spiral shell shape with variable number of lobes.

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Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile (swim)

        FEEDING MODE: Predator

        HABITAT: epifaunal

Duration: Middle Albian to Upper Cenomanian (Source: Wright et al., 1996).

PaleoDB taxon number: 95378.

Sources:

Wright, C. W., 1996. Ammonoidea, in Kaesler, R. L., ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4 Revised, Volume 4. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 362 pp.


Genera of Turrilitidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway