ANCYLOCERATIDA; TURRILITACEAE
FAMILY: TURRILITIDAE Gill, 1871
Helical forms, dextral or sinistral, loosely or tightly coiled; typically regular, but later whorls may be unstable; apical angle normally acute; in early species siphon in middle of exposed side, later migrating to upper margin or even upper internal angle of whorl; with strong ribs or tubercles or both; rarely smooth. Suture asymmetrical to accord with helical coiling; lobes primitively bifid but variable, tending to trifidity.
Genus: Turrilitoides SPATH, 1923
Type species: Turrilites hugardianus d'Orbigny, 1842
Turrilitoides densicostatus (Passendorfer, 1930)
 
Genus: Pseudhelicoceras SPATH 1922
Type species: Turrilites robertianus d'Orbigny, 1842
Pseudhelicoceras robertianum (d'Orbigny, 1842)
Pseudhelicoceras pseudoelegans Spath, 1936
Pseudhelicoceras subcatenatum Spath, 1936

 

Reference:
Wright C.W. 1996. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology; Part L MOLLUSCS 4 Revised (Volume 4: Cretaceous Ammonoidea)

 

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