Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Caenogastropoda
Ordo: Neogastropoda
Familia Incertae sedis: Purpurinidae
Genera (2†): †Cretadmete – †Purpurina
Name
† Purpurinidae Zittel, 1895
References
Links
Purpurinidae in the World Register of Marine Species
The Purpurinidae are an extinct family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Neogastropoda.[1]
Fossil record
These sea snails lived between the Upper Permian or Lopingian (about 259 million years ago) and the Lower Cretaceous (about 112 million years ago). The fossils were found in Europe (Portugal, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Romania), Asia (Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, India and Japan), North America (Greenland, United States of America and Mexico) and Africa (Tunisia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania).[2]
Genera
The following genera are recognised in the family Purpurinidae:[1]
†Cretadmete Blagovetshenskiy & Shumilkin, 2006
†Microschiza Gemmellaro, 1878
†Pseudalaria Hudleston, 1889
†Purpurina d'Orbigny, 1850
Bibliography
P. L. Beesley, Mollusca: the southern synthesis, in Fauna of Australia, vol. 5, 1998.
Bouchet, P., Rocroi, J.-P.; Frýda, J.; Hausdorf, B.; Ponder, W.; Valdes, A. and Warén, A., A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names, in Malacologia, nº 1–2, 2005, pp. 1–368.
Harzhauser, M., Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran), in Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, vol. 248, 2004, pp. 93–181.
Harzhauser, M., Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific, in Palaeontographica Abteilung A, vol. 280, 2007, pp. 75–121.
Marquet, R., Pliocene gastropod faunas from Kallo (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium) – Part 2. Caenogastropoda: Potamididae-Tornidae, in Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology, vol. 34, nº 1–2, 1997, pp. 9–29.
Ponder, W. F. and Warén, A., Appendix: classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha – A list of the family-group names and higher taxa, in Malacological Review, Suppl. 4, 1988, pp. 288–326.
Todd, J. A., Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections, 2001.
References
"WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Purpurinidae Zittel, 1895 †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
Paleobiology Database
The Taxonomicon
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