Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Alternative spelling: Fulguraria
Parent taxon: Fulgorariinae according to R. L. Squires and J. L. Goedert 1994
See also MacNeil 1960, Mount 1976, Nagao 1928, Sepkoski 2002 and White 1889
Sister taxon: Lapparia
Subtaxa: Fulgoraria (Kurodina) Fulgoraria (Miopleiona) Fulgoraria (Musashia) Fulgoraria (Psephaea) Fulgoraria (Saotomea) Fulgoraria chinensis Fulgoraria oregonensis
Type: Voluta rupestris
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 the Russian Federation (4), United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Greenland (1), United States (5: California)
• Cretaceous of India (1)
Total: 71 collections including 87 occurrences
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