Purpurina (Pseudalaria) Hudleston 1887 (periwinkle)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Purpurinidae

Alternative spelling: Pseudalaria

Full reference: W. H. Hudleston. 1887. A monograph of the British Jurassic Gasteropoda. Part 1. The lnferior Oolite Gasteropoda. Palaeontological Society Monographs

Parent taxon: Purpurina according to W. Wenz 1938

See also Cossmann 1906 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Purpurina (Globipurpurina), Purpurina (Purpurina), Purpurina concava, Purpurina coronata, Purpurina elaborata, Purpurina formosa, Purpurina gravinaensis, Purpurina pleurotomaria, Purpurina scalaris, Purpurina sowerbyi, Purpurina subcerithiformis, Purpurina subpleurotomaria, Purpurina vaceki

Subtaxa: Pseudalaria etheridgii

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Type: Alaria etheridgii

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Bradford Abbas, Fossil Bed (Buckman) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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