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Volutidae

Volutidae

Overview

Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815

Common Name: Volutes

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features:

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Paleoecology: 

        MOBILITY: Mobile

        FEEDING MODE: Carnivore

        HABITAT: Epifaunal

Sources:

Knight, J. B. et al. 1960. Systematic Descriptions [Archaeogastropoda], in R. C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I, Mollusca 1, Volume 1. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 351 pp.


Genera of Volutidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway