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Volutinae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	62835	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=62835

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Volutidae : Volutinae

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	Volutidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Volutinae	Rafinesque 1815

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Volutinae	subfamily	belongs to Volutidae	stated with evidence	MacNeil, 1960
Volutinae	subfamily	belongs to Volutidae	stated without evidence	Squires, 1984
Volutinae	subfamily	belongs to Volutidae	stated with evidence	Ponder and Warén, 1988
Volutinae	subfamily	belongs to Volutidae	implied	Wilson, 1994
Volutinae	subfamily	belongs to Volutidae	stated with evidence	Pacaud and Le Renard, 1995
Volutinae	subfamily	belongs to Volutidae	stated without evidence	Chiesa et al., 1995
Volutinae	subfamily	belongs to Volutidae	stated with evidence	Harzhauser, 2004

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

149

Extant Size (PBDB)

26 (17%)

First Recorded Appearance

113 - 94 Ma
Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Volutidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Volutidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. F. Ponder and A. Warén. 1988. Appendix: classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - a list of the family-group names and higher taxa. Malacological Review Suppl. 4:288-326

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Lyriini tribe	listed (PBDB)	272	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Calliotectum genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Callipara genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Chiraluta ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	59.2 Ma Paleocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Cordilyria genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Cryptochorda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	25	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	37.2 Ma Eocene
Ctenilyria ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	37.2 Ma Eocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Cymbiola genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	22	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Falsilyria ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	38.0 Ma Eocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Festilyria genus	listed (PBDB)
Fusivoluta genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Harpula genus	listed (PBDB)	2	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Harpulina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Leptoscapha ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	16.0 Ma Miocene
Lyreneta genus	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Lyrischapa ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	23	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	41.3 Ma Eocene
Neptuneopsis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pseudaulica genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Teramachia genus	listed (PBDB)	2	11.6 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Voluta genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	104	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Woodsivoluta ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1815	Volutinae Rafinesque
1960	Volutinae MacNeil p. 95
1964	Volutinae Woodring p. 287
1984	Volutinae Squires p. 35
1987	Volutinae Squires p. 45
1988	Volutinae Ponder and Warén p. 306
1989	Volutinae Darragh pp. 204, 205
1994	Volutinae Wilson p. 118
1995	Volutinae Chiesa et al. p. 57

Year	Name and Author
1995	Volutinae Pacaud and Le Renard p. 166
1997	Volutinae Petuch p. 131
2003	Volutinae Maxwell p. 385
2004	Volutinae Harzhauser p. 139
2005	Volutinae Bouchet et al. p. 256
2007	Volutinae Harzhauser p. 106
2009	Volutinae Harzhauser et al. p. 352
2010	Volutinae Landau and Marques da Silva p. 80
2014	Volutinae Merle and Pacaud p. 107

References

Ponder W. F., Warén A. (1988) Appendix: classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - a list of the family-group names and higher taxa, Malacological Review Suppl. 4, 288-326

MacNeil F. S. (1960) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339, 1-148

Woodring W. P. (1964) Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae)., United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 C, 241-297

Squires R. L. (1984) Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350, 1-76

Squires R. L. (1987) Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 388, 1-93

Darragh T. A. (1989) A revision of the Tertiary Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of south-eastern Australia, Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 49 2, 195-308

Wilson B. (1994) , Australian Marine Shells 2

Chiesa J.O., Parma S.G., et al (1995) Observaciones estratigraficas en el Paleogeno del noroeste de la Provincia de Santa Cruz (Republica Argentina). Parte II: Invertebrados marinos de la Formacion El Chacy (Eoceno), Provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Systematica y bioestratigrafia, Monografias de la Acadamia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas Y Naturales 11, 17-68

Pacaud J.-M., Le Renard J. (1995) Révision des Mollusques Paléogénes du Bassin de Paris. IV - Liste systématique actualisée, Cossmanniana 3 4, 155-187

Petuch E. J. (1997) A new gastropod fauna from an Oligocene back-reef lagoonal environment in west central Florida., The Nautilus 110 4, 122-138

Maxwell P. A. (2003) The Volutid genera Athleta and Lyria (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the New Zealand Cenozoic, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 33 1, 363-394 doi:10.1080/03014223.2003.9517735

Harzhauser M. (2004) Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 248, 93-181

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P, et al (2005) A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names, Malacologia 47 1-2, 1-368

Harzhauser M. (2007) Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific., Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280, 75-121

Harzhauser M., Euter M., et al (2009) Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83, 333-372

Landau B., Marques da Silva C. (2010) Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontos 19, 1-221

Merle D., Pacaud J. (2014) Systematics, in Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography, Zootaxa 3826 1, 101-138 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3826.1.3

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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