Volutospina
| 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 |
Volutospina is an extinct genus of fossil gastropod that lived from the Cretaceous to the Eocene in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.
References
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 129)
External links
- Volutospina in the Paleobiology Database
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