Volutospina nodosa was a stout, conspicuously spiny volute that lived on the London Clay seabed. Its shell had a short spire, a broad inflated body whorl and a strongly angled shoulder carrying large nodes or short spines, giving it a much more heavily armoured appearance than smoother volutes.

Its diet is not directly preserved. Comparison with living volutes suggests that it was probably an active benthic carnivore, moving over soft sediment on a muscular foot and taking shelled or soft-bodied animal prey. That feeding interpretation is an inference from its relatives rather than direct evidence from the fossil itself.