Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Parent taxon: Volutidae according to S. N. Nielsen and D. Frassinetti 2007
See also Beu et al. 1990, Ponder and Warén 1988, Stilwell et al. 2004 and Wilson 1994
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, Volutinae, Volutoderminae, Yetinae
Subtaxa: Adelomelon Alcithoe Ericusa Guivillea Harpovoluta Iredalina Livonia Mauira Mauithoe Melo Metamelon Miomelon Pachycymbiola Pachymelon Palaeomelon Palomelon Sigaluta Spinomelon Teremelon Zidona Zygomelon
Type: Zidona
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (3 collections), Australia (3), Brazil (2), Chile (1), Cuba (2), Haiti (2), New Zealand (1), Uruguay (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (3), Chile (3), Haiti (1), New Zealand (3), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (20), Australia (12), Chile (18), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (17)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (5), Australia (4), New Zealand (8)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (2)
• Eocene of Antarctica (4), Australia (3), New Zealand (19)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (7)
Total: 149 collections including 232 occurrences