Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Alternative combination: Fulgoraria mississippiensis
Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1848. Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3:280-299
Belongs to Otocheilus according to Hoerle and Vokes 1978
Sister taxa: Lyria (Harpella), Lyria (Harpeola), Lyria (Indolyria), Lyria (Lyria), Lyria (Pseudolyria), Lyria acuticostulata, Lyria anceps, Lyria andersoni, Lyria antarctica, Lyria branderi, Lyria busera, Lyria carolinensis, Lyria coquillensis, Lyria craticulata, Lyria dalli, Lyria decora, Lyria gabrielensis, Lyria gemmata, Lyria goldfussi, Lyria hannibali, Lyria harpula, Lyria lamellatoplicata, Lyria madrakahensis, Lyria mansfieldi, Lyria mississippiensis, Lyria mitraeformis, Lyria musicinoides, Lyria nucleus, Lyria pattersonia, Lyria peruviana, Lyria punjabensis, Lyria sabulosa, Lyria samanaensis, Lyria sihesurensis, Lyria silicata, Lyria vaughani, Lyria wilcoxiana, Lyria zelandica, Dallivoluta surinamensis
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Vicksburg (Oligocene of Mississippi)
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