Voluta martini Dickerson 1915 (volute)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Full reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1915. Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 5(3):33-98

Belongs to Voluta according to R. E. Dickerson 1915

Sister taxa: Voluta africana, Voluta alfaroi, Voluta anticingulata, Voluta bicorona, Voluta breviplicata, Voluta bulbula, Voluta calligona, Voluta camdeo, Voluta cantaurana, Voluta cincta, Voluta citharina, Voluta crenulata, Voluta cubaguaensis, Voluta depressa, Voluta eomagna, Voluta fimbriata, Voluta heptagonalis, Voluta induta, Voluta junghuhni, Voluta kirbyi, Voluta lawsoni, Voluta limbata, Voluta lyra, Voluta macroptera, Voluta mitreola, Voluta muricata, Voluta musica, Voluta paytanica, Voluta purpuriformis, Voluta pyriformis, Voluta radula, Voluta rupestris, Voluta semilineata, Voluta septemcostata, Voluta sulcata, Voluta trichinopolitensis, Voluta uncifera, Voluta vautrini, Voluta vredenburgi

Type specimen: CAS 360, a partial shell. Its type locality is CAS loc. 244, Live Oak Canyon, which is in an Eocene marginal marine sandstone/shale in the Tejon Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at CAS loc. 244, Live Oak Canyon

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