Volutospina

Extinct genus of gastropods

Volutospina
Temporal range: Cretaceous to Eocene
Volutospina spinosa (Linné, 1758)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Volutidae
Genus:
Volutospina

Newton, 1906

Volutospina is an extinct genus of fossil gastropod that lived from the Cretaceous to the Eocene in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.[1]

References

  1. ^ Volutospina in the Paleobiology Database

Further reading

  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 129)
Taxon identifiers
Volutospina


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