Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Alternative spelling: Volutodermatinae
Parent taxon: Volutidae according to L. R. Saul and R. L. Squires 2008
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Saul and Popenoe 1993 and Sohl 1964
Sister taxa: Alcithoinae, Amoria, Amoriinae, Athletinae, Aurinia, Benthovoluta, Calliotectinae, Caricellinae, Closia, Cymbiinae, Cymbium, Enaeta, Eucymba, Fulgorariinae, Gosavia, Haliinae, Involuta, Notopeplum, Notoplejona, Notovoluta, Odontocymbiolinae, Pavora, Phenacoptygma, Santeevoluta, Scaphella, Scaphellinae, Teremachia, Tovula, Volutilithinae, Volutinae, Yetinae, Zidoninae
Subtaxa: Carota Longoconcha Pakiluta Retipirula Varens Volutoderma Volutomorpha
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Pakistan (2 collections)
• Paleocene of United States (11: California, New Jersey, Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Brazil (1), Cameroon (4), Canada (4: British Columbia), the Congo-Brazzaville (2), Egypt (4), Germany (3), Israel (1), Mexico (5), Mozambique (1), Nigeria (2), South Africa (1), United States (246: Alabama, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 289 collections including 375 occurrences