Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Perissityidae
Parent taxon: Purpurinidae according to C. Schulbert and A. Nützel 2013
See also Conti and Szabó 1989, Kaim 2004 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Angularia, Cimoliocentrum, Leviathania, Microschiza, Moerckeia, Ochetochilus, Parangularia, Protofusus, Pseudoscalites, Purpuroidea, Tretospira, Werfenella
Subtaxa: Purpurina (Globipurpurina) Purpurina (Pseudalaria) Purpurina (Purpurina) Purpurina concava Purpurina coronata Purpurina elaborata Purpurina formosa Purpurina gravinaensis Purpurina pleurotomaria Purpurina scalaris Purpurina sowerbyi Purpurina subcerithiformis Purpurina subpleurotomaria Purpurina vaceki
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Portugal (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Germany (4), Greenland (1), India (2), Italy (1), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (3), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Triassic of China (1), Hungary (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (8), United States (4: Alaska)
Total: 33 collections including 40 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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