†family Volchoviidae Hecker 1938
Ophiocistioidea - Volchoviidae
Full reference: R. F. Hecker. 1938. A new member of the class Ophiocistia Sollas (Volchovia n. g) from the Ordovician of Leningrad Province and changes in the diagnosis of the Class. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences d'URSS 19(5):425-427
Parent taxon: Ophiocistioidea according to M. Reich and R. Haude 2004
See also Haude and Langenstrassen 1976 and Hecker 1938
Sister taxa: Branzoviella, Eucladidae, Linguaserridae, Rhenosquamidae, Rotasacciidae, Sollasinidae
Subtaxa: Volchovia
Type: Volchovia
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Volchoviidae in the database