Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Full reference: B. L. Clark and J. W. Durham. 1946. Eocene Faunas from the Department of Bolivar, Colombia. Geological Society of America Memoir 16:1-126

Belongs to Lyria according to B. L. Clark and J. W. Durham 1946

Sister taxa: Lyria (Harpella), Lyria (Harpeola), Lyria (Indolyria), Lyria (Lyria), Lyria (Pseudolyria), Lyria acuticostulata, Lyria anceps, Lyria antarctica, Lyria busera, Lyria carolinensis, Lyria dalli, Lyria feddeni, Lyria gemmata, Lyria goldfussi, Lyria madrakahensis, Lyria mansfieldi, Lyria musicinoides, Lyria nucleus, Lyria pattersonia, Lyria peruviana, Lyria punjabensis, Lyria sabulosa, Lyria samanaensis, Lyria silicata, Lyria vaughani, Lyria wilcoxiana, Otocheilus mississippiensis, Dallivoluta surinamensis

Type specimen: CAS 34997, a shell. Its type locality is UC S60, which is in the Eocene of sandstone/conglomerate Colombia.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell 20.0 x 12.0