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Definition of Turrilites

Turrilite
Turrilite Tur"ri*lite, n. [L. turris tower + Gr. ? stone: cf. F. turrilite.] (Paleon.) Any fossil ammonite of the genus Turrilites. The shell forms an open spiral with the later whorls separate.

Meaning of Turrilites from wikipedia

- subgenera. Turrilites has three subgenera. Turrilites (Turrilites) Lamarck, 1801 Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus P****y, 1832 Turrilites (Turrilites) costatus...
- Turrilites (Turrilites) costatus is a species of helically coiled ammonoid cephalopod, from the lower part of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian). The s****...
- Cretaceous, included in the Turrilitidae. Its type is Turrilites bergeri Mariella resembles Turrilites in general form. The s**** is asymmetric, closely wound...
- the straight-s****ed Baculites and Sciponoceras; the helically coiled Turrilites; and the bizarre Nipponites, which looked more like a ball of string than...
- (in two dimensions), similar in appearance to some gastropods (e.g., Turrilites and Bostrychoceras). Some species' s**** are even initially uncoiled...
- Cunningtoniceras inerme zone Acanthoceras rhotomagense zone (=Turrilites costatus and Turrilites acutus zones) Acanthoceras jukesbrownei zone Calycoceras naviculare...
- others, such as the eponymous Turrilites, are believed to have been bottom-dwellers. The name of the type genus Turrilites is a hybrid formation based on...
- Heteroceras simplicostatum Whitfield, 1902 Nostoceras (Didymoceras) nebrascense (M**** and Hayden, 1856) Turrilites nebrascensis (M**** and Hayden, 1856)...
- helically-coiled juvenile morphology of Hamites into adulthood. Baculites Scaphites Turrilites Szives, O.; Monks, N. (2002). "Heteromorphs of the Tata Limestone Formation...
- this view is not accepted by most authors. Some, such as the eponymous Turrilites, coiled helically, like an auger s****, while others, such as Hamites...