Gatunek typowy

Opis

Type species: Cerithium nysti d’Archiac, 1843 . Bathonian (Mid Jurassic), l’Aisne, France.
Orthostrophic protoconch, highly conical, with angular to rounded, convex whorls. Sculpture consisting of network of intersecting spiral and strong axial riblets. Transition to teleoconch abruptly terminated, with varix and basal, subsutural sinuosity of outer lip. Teleoconch turriculate with convex to flattened whorls. Sculpture with axial and spiral costation,  intersections nodulated.

Synonimy
Prisciphora Schröder, 1992

Zasięg czasowy

Literatura

Cossmann, M. 1906. Essais de Paléoconchologie Comparée. Septième Livraison. 261 pp. M. Cossmann, F.R. de Rudeval, Paris.

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