Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Alternative spelling: Pollia
Parent taxon: Cantharus according to H. S. Ladd 1977
See also Durham 1944, Harzhauser 2002, MacNeil 1960, Olsson 1931, Oostingh 1935 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Cantharus (Calicantharus), Cantharus (Cantharus), Cantharus (Endopachychilus), Cantharus (Eocantharus), Cantharus (Zeapollia), Cantharus andoi, Cantharus brongniartianus, Cantharus bucklandi, Cantharus cowlitzensis, Cantharus erythrostoma, Cantharus lugubris, Cantharus luliana, Cantharus martiniana, Cantharus occidentalis, Cantharus perrini, Cantharus polygona, Cantharus sanguinolentus, Cantharus tranquebaricus, Cantharus varicosus, Cantharus variegatus, Tritonidea (Cantharus) speciosa
Subtaxa: Cantharus (Pollia) fumosus Pollia dickersoni Pollia huitra Pollia purpuroides Pollia sillapaytensis Pollia suarezi
Type: Pollia suarezi
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Japan (2), Saudi Arabia (2)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (2), Italy (1)
• Miocene of Indonesia (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1)
• Oligocene of France (9)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (1), Indonesia (2), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (1: Washington)
• Paleocene of Greenland (3), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 35 collections including 38 occurrences