Voluta hamiltonensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Voluta hamiltonensis Pritchard, 1898 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1652576 on 2023-06-29
Description Specimens of the species have a fusiform shell, axial sculpture, and non-extended outer lip, with flattened whorls on its spire.Thomson, Kirstie Rae. (September 2013). Evolutionary patterns and consequences of developmental mode in Cenozoic gastropods from southeastern Australia [doctoral dissertation, University of Liverpool]. A smooth, relatively spherical protoconch is seen at the end of the spire.
Distribution Fossils of this marine species were found in Tertiary strata in Victoria, Australia.
References
G.B. Pritchard | J.H. Gatliff, Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria; Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1898 part II