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Turritella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Gastropoda
    Subclass:  
Prosobranchia
    Order:  
Caenogastropoda
    Superfamily:  
Cerithiacea
    Family:  
Turritellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Turritella LAMARCK, 1799
    Type Species:  
Turbo terebra LINNÉ, 1758


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Geographic Distribution

Oligo.-Rec., SE.Asia-E.Indies-Japan; Mio., S.Eu.-N.Afr.-trop. & subtrop. Am.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Oligo.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Rupelian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
33.9
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Moderate to large, slender, whorls convex, neanic primary spirals starting in the order ab-apical-medial-adapical, outer lip arcuate, lateral sinus shallow, oblique, no basal sinus




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