Athleta elevata was a predatory volute that lived on the soft London Clay seabed. Like living volutes, it was probably an active hunter, moving over or shallowly through sediment on a muscular foot and using a proboscis and radula to tackle other molluscs or similar benthic prey.

Its exact diet is not preserved, so the mollusc-eating interpretation remains an ecological inference from its relationships. Even so, it represents the mobile predatory gastropod community that shared the seabed with clams, other snails, crustaceans and fishes.