Voluta quinqueplicata

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Voluta quinqueplicata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

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Voluta quinqueplicata
Shell of † Voluta quinqueplicata (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Subfamily: Volutinae
Genus: Voluta
Species:
V. quinqueplicata
Binomial name
Voluta quinqueplicata
Bayan, 1870
Synonyms[1]
  • Plejona quinqueplicata (Bayan, 1870)
  • Voluta heberti Deshayes, 1865
  • Volutolyria quinqueplicata (Bayan, 1870)
  • Voluta deshayesi Sacco, 1890
  • Volutilithes quinqueplicata (Bayan, 1870)
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Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Lutetian strata in France

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