Volutospina
Appearance
This taxon may be invalid (unaccepted).(Jan 2019) |
Volutospina Temporal range: Cretaceous to Eocene
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Volutospina spinosa (Linné, 1758) | |
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Genus: | Volutospina Newton, 1906
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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
[edit]- ^ Volutospina in the Paleobiology Database
Further reading
[edit]- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 129)
Categories:
- Volutidae
- Prehistoric mollusc genera
- Cretaceous gastropods
- Paleocene gastropods
- Eocene gastropods
- Prehistoric animals of Africa
- Prehistoric animals of Asia
- Prehistoric animals of Europe
- Prehistoric gastropods of North America
- Cretaceous genus first appearances
- Maastrichtian genera
- Danian genera
- Selandian genera
- Thanetian genera
- Ypresian genera
- Eocene genus extinctions
- Fossil taxa described in 1906
- Volutidae stubs
- Prehistoric gastropod stubs