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Volvarina

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	106593	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=106593

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Marginellidae : Volvarina

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Marginellidae	Fleming 1828
genus	Volvarina	(Hinds 1844)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Volvarina	subgenus	belongs to Marginella	stated with evidence	Hinds, 1844
Volvarina	subgenus	belongs to Marginella	stated without evidence	Dey, 1961
Volvarina	subgenus	belongs to Hyalina	stated without evidence	Weisbord, 1962
Volvarina	genus	belongs to Marginellidae	stated with evidence	Woodring, 1970
Volvarina	subgenus	belongs to Marginella	stated with evidence	Ladd, 1982
Volvarina	genus	belongs to Marginellidae	stated with evidence	Ward and Blackwelder, 1987
Volvarina	genus	belongs to Marginellidae	implied	Wilson, 1993
Volvarina	genus	belongs to Marginellidae	stated with evidence	Lozouet, 1998
Volvarina	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (38%)

First Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Marginellidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Marginellidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Hyalina (Volvarina) lustra ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	5.33 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Marginella (Volvarina) kayalensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Marginella (Volvarina) nitida species	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Marginella (Volvarina) oryzoides ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Volvarina albolineata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Volvarina avena species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Volvarina collina ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Volvarina cossmanni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Volvarina leander ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	21	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Volvarina nitida ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Volvarina taeniata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Volvarina tumulensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	28.1 Ma Oligocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1844	Marginella (Volvarina) Hinds p. 75
1928	Marginella (Volvarina) Woodring p. 236
1935	Marginella (Volvarina) Oostingh p. 102
1947	Marginella (Volvarina) Gardner p. 394
1948	Marginella (Volvarina) Gardner p. 261
1953	Marginella (Volvarina) Olsson and Harbison p. 203
1961	Marginella (Volvarina) Dey
1962	Hyalina (Volvarina) Weisbord p. 415

Year	Name and Author
1970	Volvarina Woodring p. 330
1982	Marginella (Volvarina) Ladd p. 59
1987	Volvarina Ward and Blackwelder p. 132
1993	Volvarina Wilson p. 143
1998	Volvarina Lozouet p. 96
2001	Volvarina Nehm p. 695
2001	Volvarina Todd
2002	Volvarina Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Woodring W. P. (1928) Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results, Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies

Oostingh C. H. (1935) Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java), Dienst van den Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië Wetenschappelijke Mededeelingen 26, 1-247

Gardner J. R. (1947) The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 142A-H, 1-709

Gardner J. A. (1948) Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199 B, 179-310

Olsson A. A., Harbison A. (1953) Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph 8, 1-457

Dey A. K. (1961) The Miocene Mollusca from Quilon, Kerala (India), Palaeontologica Indica 36

Weisbord N.E. (1962) Late Cenozoic gastropods from northern Venezuela, Bulletins of American Paleontology 42 193

Woodring W. P. (1970) Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae)., United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 D, 299-452

Ladd H. S. (1982) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Volutidae through Terebridae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1171, 1-100

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Wilson B. (1993) , Australian Marine Shells 1

Lozouet P. (1998) Nouvelles espéces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de L'Oligocéne et di Miocéne inférieur de"Aquitaine (sud-ouest de la France), Cossmanniana 5 3-4, 61-102

Nehm R. H. (2001) Calibrating spatial and temporal species richness patterns in tropical marginellid gastropods, Journal of Paleontology 75 3, 680-696

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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