Gatunek typowy
Cerithium ziczac Eudes−Deslongchamps, 1842. Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic), Fountaine−Etoupefour, France.

Opis

Protoconch hyperstrophic, transaxial to weakly medioaxial, smooth. Teleoconch strongly elongated. First teleoconch whorl with 3–4 spiral ribs. Spiral ribs crossed by weaker, orthocline to weakly opisthocline or weakly opisthocyrtic, axial ribs or threads. At intersections rounded nodules may appear.

Synonimy

Zasięg czasowy

Hettangian (Early Jurassic) to Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) and possibly Eocene.

Literatura

Cossmann, M. 1912. Essais de Paléoconchologie Comparée. Neuvième Livraison. 215 pp. M. Cossmann, J. Lamarre and Cie, Éditeurs, Paris.

Kaim, A. 2004. The evolution of conch ontogeny in Mesozoic open sea gastropods. Palaeontologia Polonica 62, 3–183.