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''Volutospina'' is an
extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
genus of fossil
gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
that lived from the Cretaceous to the Eocene in Africa, Asia, Europe, and
North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
.''Volutospina''
in the Paleobiology Database


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Further reading

* ''Fossils'' (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 129) 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 {{paleo-gastropod-stub