Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Parent taxon: Volutidae according to D. Merle and J. Pacaud 2014
See also Adegoke 1977, Bouchet et al. 2005, Chiesa et al. 1995, Darragh 1989, Harzhauser 2004, Harzhauser 2007, Harzhauser et al. 2009, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010, MacNeil 1960, Maxwell 2003, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Petuch 1997, Ponder and Warén 1988, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Wilson 1994 and Woodring 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, Volutilithinae, Volutoderminae, Yetinae, Zidoninae
Subtaxa: Calliotectum Callipara Chiraluta Cordilyria Cryptochorda Ctenilyria Cymbiola Falsilyria Festilyria Harpula Harpulina Leptoscapha Lyreneta Lyriini Lyrischapa Neptuneopsis Pseudaulica Teramachia Voluta Woodsivoluta
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (2), Panama (2), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (2), United States (1: South Carolina), Vanuatu (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (4)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Costa Rica (15), the Dominican Republic (19), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (4), Japan (2), Panama (14), South Africa (3), the United Kingdom (1), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (10), Japan (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (9), Brazil (4), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (38), Germany (1), India (5), Indonesia (9), Italy (3), Japan (1), Pakistan (8), Panama (8), Romania (1), South Africa (1), United States (7: California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (5: Florida)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Bulgaria (1), Costa Rica (1), France (2), Greece (1), India (2), Iran (2), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (5), Turkey (1), United States (20: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Antarctica (1), Australia (4), Belgium (3), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (3), Egypt (2), France (9), Germany (1), India (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Mexico (4), Namibia (1), Pakistan (7), Panama (1), Peru (6), Romania (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (92: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Pakistan (2)
• Paleocene of China (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (1), India (1), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (3), Poland (3), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (11: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Egypt (1), Germany (2), USSR (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 424 collections including 505 occurrences