Gatunek typowy

Opis

Type species: Cerithium fusiforme Hébert & Eudes−Deslongchamps,1860. Callovian (Mid Jurassic), Montreuil−Bellay, France.
Small bucciniform shell ornamented by axial and spiral ribs with nodes at intersections. Ornamentation is attenuated at base. Body whorl weakly inflated. Peristome oval, subrhomboidal with small siphonal notch. Narrow callus on the columellar lip developed.

Synonimy

Zasięg czasowy

Bathonian (Mid Jurassic) to Neocomian (Early Cretaceous).

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.