Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Alternative spelling: Fulgorarinae
Parent taxon: Volutidae according to M. D. Perrilliat et al. 2006
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Ponder and Warén 1988, Squires 1984 and Squires 1987
Sister taxa: Alcithoinae, Amoria, Amoriinae, Athletinae, Aurinia, Benthovoluta, Calliotectinae, Caricellinae, Closia, Cymbiinae, Cymbium, Enaeta, Eucymba, Gosavia, Haliinae, Involuta, Notopeplum, Notoplejona, Notovoluta, Odontocymbiolinae, Pavora, Phenacoptygma, Santeevoluta, Scaphella, Scaphellinae, Teremachia, Volutilithinae, Volutinae, Volutoderminae, Yetinae, Zidoninae
Subtaxa: Fulgoraria Lapparia
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: California collections)
• Pliocene of Japan (8), United States (2: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (2)
• Miocene of Japan (4), the Russian Federation (1), United States (8: Alaska, Oregon)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Oligocene of Japan (3), the Russian Federation (2), United States (25: Alaska, Washington)
• Eocene of Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (11), United States (85: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of Greenland (1), United States (5: California)
• Cretaceous of India (1)
Total: 167 collections including 195 occurrences