Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Synonym: Auriniinae Smith 1942
Parent taxon: Volutidae according to E. H. Vokes 1998
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Darragh 1989, Olsson 1967, Sohl 1964 and Ward 1992
Sister taxa: Alcithoinae, Amoria, Amoriinae, Athletinae, Aurinia, Benthovoluta, Calliotectinae, Caricellinae, Closia, Cymbiinae, Cymbium, Enaeta, Eucymba, Fulgorariinae, Gosavia, Haliinae, Involuta, Notopeplum, Notoplejona, Notovoluta, Odontocymbiolinae, Pavora, Phenacoptygma, Santeevoluta, Scaphella, Teremachia, Volutilithinae, Volutinae, Volutoderminae, Yetinae, Zidoninae
Subtaxa: Ampulla Atraktus Caricella Eoscaphella Montia Myobarbum Parafusus Scaphellopsis Sycospira Volutifusus
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (2 collections), United States (4: Florida, North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), United States (8: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene of Italy (1), Panama (1), United States (8: Florida, Maryland)
• Oligocene of United States (16: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Antarctica (5), Japan (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (126: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (23: Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (6), United States (26: Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 233 collections including 300 occurrences