Volutospina
Extinct genus of gastropods
Volutospina Temporal range: Cretaceous to Eocene | |
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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
- ^ Volutospina in the Paleobiology Database
Further reading
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 129)
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