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Torquesia

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Turritella sulcifera

Bracklesham Bay, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK

Turritella sulcifera

Bracklesham Bay, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK

Turritella sulcifera

Bracklesham Bay, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4614024	https://www.gbif.org/species/4614024
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10593	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10593

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Turritellidae : Torquesia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Sorbeoconcha : Turritellidae : Torquesia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
order	Sorbeoconcha	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
superfamily	Cerithioidea	(Férussac 1819)
family	Turritellidae	Lovén 1847
subfamily	Turritellinae	Lovén 1847
genus	Torquesia	Douvillé 1929

Scientific Name

Torquesia Douvillé, 1929

Name Published In

Pal. ind. (n.s.), 10 (Mem. 3, fasc. 2): 55

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Torquesia	subgenus	belongs to Turritella	stated with evidence	Abbass, 1962
Torquesia	subgenus	belongs to Turritella	stated without evidence	Abbass, 1967
Torquesia	genus	belongs to Turritellidae	stated with evidence	Kase, 1984
Torquesia	genus	belongs to Turritellinae	stated with evidence	Pacaud and Le Renard, 1995
Torquesia	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (4.5%)

First Recorded Appearance

125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Turritellidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Turritellidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Torquesia (Ispharina) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		25	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	23.0 Ma Miocene
Torquesia colombiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Torquesia oppenheimi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella (Torquesia) abbassi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Turritella (Torquesia) akkadi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Turritella (Torquesia) boghosi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Turritella (Torquesia) carinifera ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		18	41.3 Ma Eocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Turritella (Torquesia) elicitatoides ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Turritella (Torquesia) faizai ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Turritella (Torquesia) granulata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		9	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Turritella (Torquesia) hassani ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Turritella (Torquesia) mahmoudi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Turritella (Torquesia) nazikae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Turritella (Torquesia) pharaonica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	47.8 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Turritella (Torquesia) saharica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Turritella (Torquesia) tamra ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Turritella (Torquesia) vibrayeana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		5	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Turritella (Torquesia) wagihi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Turritella abbassi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella akkadi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella boghosi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella faizai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella hassani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella mahmoudi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella nazikae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella pharaonica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella saharica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella tamra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella vibrayeana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella wagihi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1929	Torquesia Douvillé
1962	Turritella (Torquesia) Abbass p. 182
1967	Turritella (Torquesia) Abbass p. 21
1984	Torquesia Kase p. 121
1995	Torquesia Pacaud and Le Renard p. 157
1996	Torquesia Allmon p. 10
2002	Torquesia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Abbass H. L. (1962) The english Cretaceous Turritellide and Mathildidae (Gastropoda), Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 7 6, 175-196

Abbass H. L. (1967) A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods, United Arab Republic, Geological Survey-Geological Museum, Palaeontological Series, Monograph 4, 1-154

Kase T. (1984) , Early Cretaceous marine and brackish-water Gastropoda from Japan, 1-262

Pacaud J.-M., Le Renard J. (1995) Révision des Mollusques Paléogénes du Bassin de Paris. IV - Liste systématique actualisée, Cossmanniana 3 4, 155-187

Allmon W. D. (1996) Systematics and Evolution of Cenozoic American Turitellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) I, Paleontographica Americana 59

Mem. Geol. Surv. India, Pal. Ind., (N. S.) 9, mem. 3, fasc. 2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 493 Designation under the Plenary Powers of a type species in harmony with Estabhshed usage for the genus Torquesia Douville, 1929 (class Gastropoda).Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 17(15), 255-264 (1957) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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