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Voluta lawsoni

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Taxonomy
Voluta lawsoni was named by Dickerson (1913). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 1853, Marysville Buttes, which is in a Ypresian marine horizon in the Capay Formation of California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
V. conspicua, V. crenistria, V. cretacea

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Voluta lawsoni Dickerson p. 284 figs. Plate 12, figures 5a, 5b, and 5c

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyVolutidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyVolutinaeRafinesque 1815
genusVolutaLinnaeaus 1758
specieslawsoni

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.

†Voluta lawsoni Dickerson 1913
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available