Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Alternative spellings: Volutatithes, Volutilites
Parent taxon: Volutilithinae according to D. Merle and J. Pacaud 2014
See also Abbass 1967, Adegoke 1977, Conrad 1855, Darragh 1989, Givens 1978, Harzhauser 2004, Harzhauser and Mandic 2001, Nagao 1928, Perrilliat et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002 and Squires and Advocate 1986
Sister taxa: Eopsephaea, Plejona, Pseudaulicina, Rostellana, Sindhiluta
Subtaxa: Volutilithes (Afrovolutilithes) Volutilithes (Volutilithes) Volutilithes acuta Volutilithes angustata Volutilithes calabasasensis Volutilithes clarae Volutilithes dumosa Volutilithes fusiformis Volutilithes gruneri Volutilithes guillemaini Volutilithes minor Volutilithes multicostata Volutilithes muricinus Volutilithes nodifera Volutilithes orocopiaensis Volutilithes pariaensis Volutilithes permulticostata Volutilithes protensa Volutilithes pseudocostata Volutilithes pusilla Volutilithes rakhiensis Volutilithes sindhiensis Volutilithes spicata Volutilithes subcorrugata Volutilithes symmetrica Volutilithes torreyensis Volutilithes undulosus Volutilithes welcommei Volutilithes whitensis
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Hungary (3), Japan (1)
• Eocene of Brazil (1), Egypt (2), France (1), India (1), Italy (1), Mexico (2), Pakistan (2), Senegal (1), Somalia (1), Spain (35), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (7: Alabama, California, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (6), Egypt (1), Mali (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (3: Alabama, Georgia)
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (5), Germany (3), Japan (1), Mozambique (1), Poland (3)
Total: 91 collections including 108 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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