Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Parent taxon: Volutoderminae according to L. R. Saul and R. L. Squires 2008
See also Packard 1922 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Carota, Longoconcha, Pakiluta, Retipirula, Varens, Volutomorpha
Subtaxa: Volutoderma (Rostellinda) Volutoderma angelica Volutoderma antherena Volutoderma averillii Volutoderma blakei Volutoderma elderi Volutoderma elongata Volutoderma jalama Volutoderma magna Volutoderma perissa Volutoderma plicatula Volutoderma querna Volutoderma santana Volutoderma ynezae Volutoderma zitteliana
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (3: New Jersey collections)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Egypt (2), Germany (3), Mexico (3), Mozambique (1), Nigeria (1), United States (85: California, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 102 collections including 112 occurrences
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