Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Parent taxon: Scaphellinae according to T. A. Darragh 1989
See also Harris and Palmer 1947, Sepkoski 2002 and Wenz 1938
Sister taxa: Ampulla, Atraktus, Eoscaphella, Montia, Myobarbum, Parafusus, Scaphellopsis, Sycospira, Volutifusus
Subtaxa: Caricella bolaris Caricella demissa Caricella fenestra Caricella howei Caricella ogilviana Caricella perpinguis Caricella polita Caricella pyruloides Caricella stormsiana Caricella subangulata
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (5: Florida collections)
• Oligocene of United States (16: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Japan (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (126: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene of France (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (23: Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (6)
Total: 181 collections including 229 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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