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Purpuroidea

Gastropoda - Purpurinidae

Taxonomy

Purpuroidea was named by Lycett (1848) [Sepkoski's age data: Tr Ladi K Turo]. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Purpurinidae by Kase (1984); and to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002).

Subtaxa

P. acatlana, P. applanata, P. cerithiformis, P. crassenodosa, P. praecursor, P. rugosa, P. subcerithiformis

Species lacking formal opinion data

P. baconica, P. dilophosignata, P. excelsior, P. ferenczii, P. gigas, P. glabra, P. lycettea, P. minax, P. moosleitneri, P. moreana, P. nodulata, P. perstriata, P. raiblensis, P. supraliasica, P. turriculata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1848	Purpuroidea Lycett
1984	Purpuroidea Kase p. 104
2002	Purpuroidea Sepkoski

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca

Rank	Name	Author
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superfamily	Littorinoidea	(Gray 1840)
family	Purpurinidae	Zittel 1895
genus	Purpuroidea	Lycett 1848

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Purpuroidea Lycett 1848

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†Purpuroidea acatlana Alencaster and Buitron 1965

†Purpuroidea applanata Kittl 1894

†Purpuroidea cerithiformis Kittl 1894

†Purpuroidea crassenodosa Kittl 1894

†Purpuroidea praecursor Fischer et al. 2002

†Purpuroidea rugosa Böhm 1895

†Purpuroidea subcerithiformis Kittl 1894

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	6	20.9	12.5	30.0	21.2	6.47
shell diameter	6	53.0	-	-	53.0	-

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilesuperf

Life habit:

epifaunalsuperf

Diet:

grazersuperf

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 07:51:34

Modified:

2009-09-10 09:51:34

Source: superf = superfamily, c = class

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Ladinian to the top of the Late/Upper Aptian or 241.46400 to 113.20000 Ma

Collections (74 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ladinian	241.464 - 237.0	Italy	Coronaria rugosa, Coronaria subcerithiformis (138255) Coronaria subcerithiformis (138256)
Julian	237.0 - 233.6	Italy	P. applanata (144633) P. crassenodosa (144632) P. crassenodosa, P. cerithiformis (144631)
Carnian	237.0 - 227.3	Hungary (Bakony)	P. applanata (203199)
Carnian	237.0 - 227.3	Italy (South Tyrol)	P. raiblensis (205157)
Carnian	237.0 - 227.3	Austria (Steiermark)	P. excelsior (85239)
Carnian	237.0 - 227.3	Hungary	P. cerithiformis (70883)
Carnian	237.0 - 227.3	Italy	P. cerithiformis (164191)
Norian	227.3 - 205.7	Hungary	P. excelsior (70989) P. excelsior, P. ferenczii (70988 70990) P. excelsior, P. ferenczii, P. turriculata (73279) P. ferenczii (73270)
Norian	227.3 - 205.7	USA (Oregon)	P. sp. (100506)
Norian	227.3 - 205.7	Iran (Isfahan)	P. dilophosignata (138967)
Norian	227.3 - 205.7	Iran	P. dilophosignata (98644)
Norian - Rhaetian	227.3 - 201.4	Hungary	P. baconica (203623)
Rhaetian	205.7 - 201.4	Austria (Gmunden)	P. moosleitneri (234040)
Rhaetian	205.7 - 201.4	Austria (Vienna)	P. moosleitneri (233865)
Jurassic - Late/Upper Jurassic	201.4 - 143.1	Tunisia	P. gigas (13862)
Sinemurian	199.5 - 192.9	Italy	P. praecursor (80016)
Toarcian	184.2 - 174.7	Kenya	P. supraliasica (36455)
Middle Jurassic	174.7 - 161.5	Jordan	P. perstriata (35357)
Bajocian	170.9 - 168.2	Jordan	P. minax, P. perstriata (35355) P. perstriata (35323 35356 35377 35378 35703)
Early/Lower Bajocian - Late/Upper Oxfordian	170.9 - 154.8	Romania (Brasov)	P. lycettea (81442)
Bathonian	168.2 - 165.3	Saudi Arabia	Purpuroidea indet. (48340)
Bathonian	168.2 - 165.3	Jordan	P. perstriata (35670 35671 35672 35674 35675)
Callovian	165.3 - 161.5	Ethiopia	P. glabra (93477 93481 93490 93492 93532)
Callovian	165.3 - 161.5	Jordan	P. minax, P. perstriata (35700) P. perstriata (35665 35667 35699 35701)
Late/Upper Callovian	165.3 - 161.5	Tunisia	P. gigas (13794)
Middle Callovian	165.3 - 161.5	Israel	P. perstriata (99129)
Middle Callovian - Late/Upper Callovian	165.3 - 161.5	Tunisia	P. gigas (13588 13607 13614 13659 13660 13666 13667 13677)
Callovian - Middle Oxfordian	165.3 - 154.8	Tunisia	P. gigas (13792)
Callovian - Oxfordian	165.3 - 154.8	Tunisia	P. gigas (13903 13904)
Callovian - Kimmeridgian	165.3 - 149.2	Tunisia	P. sp. (99126)
Middle Oxfordian	161.5 - 154.8	France	Purpuroidea indet. (4920) P. moreana, P. nodulata (11085)
Oxfordian	161.5 - 154.8	Saudi Arabia	Purpuroidea indet. (45818)
Late/Upper Oxfordian	157.9 - 154.8	France	Purpuroidea indet. (4854)
Late/Upper Oxfordian	157.9 - 154.8	France (Normandy)	Purpuroidea indet. (4852 4853)
Kimmeridgian	154.8 - 149.2	Mexico (Chiapas)	P. acatlana (98672)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian	152.21 - 149.2	Tanzania	P. gigas (36345)
Hauterivian	132.6 - 125.77	Portugal	P. sp. (65854 65857)
Late/Upper Aptian	119.57 - 113.2	Japan	P. sp. (91302 91306)