Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Purpurinidae
Parent taxon: Littorinoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Ponder and Warén 1988
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Angularia Cimoliocentrum Leviathania Microschiza Moerckeia Ochetochilus Parangularia Protofusus Pseudoscalites Purpurina Purpuroidea Tretospira Werfenella
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Albania (1 collection), Hungary (1), Japan (2), Mexico (3), Portugal (10), Spain (2)
• Jurassic of Chile (1), Ethiopia (5), France (10), Germany (5), Greenland (1), Hungary (2), India (2), Israel (1), Italy (2), Jordan (17), Kenya (1), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Poland (2), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (5), Sweden (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (27), the United Kingdom (5)
• Triassic of Austria (4), Bosnia and Herzegovina (5), China (3), Croatia (5), Germany (1), Hungary (17), Indonesia (2), Iran (3), Italy (44), Peru (5), Slovenia (1), United States (6: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon)
• Permian of Pakistan (4)
Total: 211 collections including 272 occurrences