Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Parent taxon: Volutinae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
See also Adegoke 1977, Bohm 1926, Rivera 1957, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Woodring 1964
Sister taxa: Calliotectum, Callipara, Chiraluta, Cordilyria, Cryptochorda, Ctenilyria, Cymbiola, Falsilyria, Festilyria, Harpula, Harpulina, Leptoscapha, Lyreneta, Lyriini, Lyrischapa, Neptuneopsis, Pseudaulica, Teramachia, Woodsivoluta
Subtaxa: Voluta africana Voluta alfaroi Voluta anticingulata Voluta bicorona Voluta breviplicata Voluta bulbula Voluta calligona Voluta camdeo Voluta cantaurana Voluta cincta Voluta citharina Voluta crenulata Voluta cubaguaensis Voluta depressa Voluta eomagna Voluta fimbriata Voluta heptagonalis Voluta induta Voluta junghuhni Voluta kirbyi Voluta lawsoni Voluta limbata Voluta lyra Voluta macroptera Voluta martini Voluta mitreola Voluta muricata Voluta musica Voluta paytanica Voluta purpuriformis Voluta pyriformis Voluta radula Voluta rupestris Voluta semilineata Voluta septemcostata Voluta sulcata Voluta trichinopolitensis Voluta uncifera Voluta vautrini Voluta vredenburgi
Type: Voluta musica
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Colombia (1 collection), Costa Rica (1), Panama (2), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (2), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (15), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Panama (14), South Africa (3), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (4), Cyprus (1), Indonesia (2), Panama (7), South Africa (1), United States (3: California, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Costa Rica (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of France (5), Germany (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Namibia (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), Romania (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (7: California, Louisiana)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), United States (2: Louisiana)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Egypt (1), Germany (2)
Total: 101 collections including 110 occurrences
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