Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Parent taxon: Volutidae according to D. Merle and J. Pacaud 2014
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Harzhauser et al. 2009, Maxwell 2003, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Ponder and Warén 1988, Sohl 1964, Squires 1987 and Wilson 1994
Sister taxa: Alcithoinae, Amoria, Amoriinae, Aurinia, Benthovoluta, Calliotectinae, Caricellinae, Closia, Cymbiinae, Cymbium, Enaeta, Eucymba, Fulgorariinae, Haliinae, Indovolutinae, Notopeplum, Notoplejona, Notovoluta, Odontocymbiolinae, Pavora, Phenacoptygma, Santeevoluta, Scaphella, Scaphellinae, Teremachia, Tovula, Volutilithinae, Volutinae, Volutoderminae, Yetinae, Zidoninae
Subtaxa: Athleta Konistra Liopeplum Parvivoluta Peruluta Tectaplica
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (7 collections), France (2), Germany (2), Greece (2), India (3), Iran (1), Italy (5), Pakistan (7), Romania (1), Türkiye (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Bulgaria (2), France (4), Germany (1), Greece (1), Hungary (3), Israel (1), Japan (1), Myanmar (3), Oman (2), Pakistan (2), Peru (3), Türkiye (2), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Peru (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Bulgaria (5), Colombia (1), Egypt (2), France (8), Haiti (1), India (3), Indonesia (3), Italy (2), Japan (8), Mexico (14), New Zealand (7), Nigeria (12), Pakistan (12), Peru (8), Romania (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (24), United States (233: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (2), Germany (3), Greenland (3), Mali (1), Mexico (3), New Zealand (1), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (4), Poland (4), Togo (2), United States (126: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Mexico (1), Poland (1), South Africa (1), United States (109: Alabama, Arizona, California, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 681 collections including 922 occurrences