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Volutilithes angustata

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Taxonomy

Volutilithes angustata was named by Böhm (1891).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

V. alticostatus, V. antiqua, V. antiscalaris, V. daniensis, V. desertorum, V. deshayesianus, V. flandrini, V. florencis, V. gormani, V. kneri, V. kohaticus, V. limopsis, V. mokattamensis, V. nodifer, V. placentiger, V. protensus, V. proxima, V. radula, V. rourei, V. rugatus, V. scalaris

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1891	Volutilithes angustata Böhm p. 56 figs. Pl 2, figs 7,a

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Volutidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Volutilithinae	Pilsbry and Olsson 1954
genus	Volutilithes	Swainson 1829
species	angustata

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Volutilithes angustata Böhm 1891

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 08:23:59

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:23:59

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Germany	Volutilithes angustata (221859)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Germany	Volutilithes angustata (213668)