†subfamily Volutilithinae Pilsbry and Olsson 1954 (volute)

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

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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

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