Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Parent taxon: Volutidae according to D. Merle and J. Pacaud 2014
See also Darragh 1989, Givens 1978 and Pacaud and Le Renard 1995
Sister taxa: Alcithoinae, Amoria, Amoriinae, Athletinae, Aurinia, Benthovoluta, Calliotectinae, Caricellinae, Closia, Cymbiinae, Cymbium, Enaeta, Eucymba, Fulgorariinae, Haliinae, Indovolutinae, Notopeplum, Notoplejona, Notovoluta, Odontocymbiolinae, Pavora, Phenacoptygma, Santeevoluta, Scaphella, Scaphellinae, Teremachia, Tovula, Volutinae, Volutoderminae, Yetinae, Zidoninae
Subtaxa: Eopsephaea Plejona Pseudaulicina Rostellana Sindhiluta Volutilithes
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Hungary (3), Japan (1)
• Eocene of Brazil (1), Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), Egypt (3), France (4), India (1), Italy (1), Mexico (2), Pakistan (2), Peru (2), Romania (3), Senegal (1), Somalia (1), Spain (35), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (8: Alabama, California, Mississippi, North Carolina)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Colombia (2), Denmark (6), Egypt (1), France (1), Mali (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), Togo (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (4: Alabama, California, Georgia)
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (6), Germany (3), Japan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mozambique (1), Poland (3)
Total: 112 collections including 146 occurrences