Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Purpurinidae
Parent taxon: Purpurinidae according to J. Fischer and C. Weber 1997
See also Allison 1955, Kase 1984 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Angularia, Cimoliocentrum, Leviathania, Moerckeia, Ochetochilus, Parangularia, Protofusus, Pseudoscalites, Purpurina, Purpuroidea, Tretospira, Werfenella
Subtaxa: Microschiza (Cloughtonia) Microschiza arguta Microschiza clathrata Microschiza semiornata
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Albania (1 collection), Hungary (1), Mexico (3), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Chile (1), France (1), Germany (1), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (1), Poland (1)
• Triassic of Austria (2), Italy (1)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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