Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Alternative spellings: Marginella (Closia), Persicula (Closia)
Parent taxon: Volutidae according to H. L. Abbass 1967
See also Dey 1961, Mansfield 1925 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Alcithoinae, Amoria, Amoriinae, Athletinae, Aurinia, Benthovoluta, Calliotectinae, Caricellinae, Cymbiinae, Cymbium, Enaeta, Eucymba, Fulgorariinae, Gosavia, Haliinae, Involuta, Notopeplum, Notoplejona, Notovoluta, Odontocymbiolinae, Pavora, Phenacoptygma, Santeevoluta, Scaphella, Scaphellinae, Teremachia, Volutilithinae, Volutinae, Volutoderminae, Yetinae, Zidoninae
Subtaxa: Closia (Bullata)
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Trinidad and Tobago (4 collections), United States (5: Florida, North Carolina)
• Miocene of Australia (2), India (1), Trinidad and Tobago (3)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), United States (99: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene of United States (2: Alabama, Illinois)
Total: 117 collections including 134 occurrences
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