Purpuroidea
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| Purpuroidea Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil of Purpuroidea species | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | †Purpurinidae |
| Genus: | †Purpuroidea Lycett, 1848 |
Purpuroidea is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.
These extinct sea snails lived between the Middle Triassic, Ladinian age (about 242 - 237 million years ago) and the Early Cretaceous, Turonian age (about 122 – 112 million years ago). [1][2] The fossils were found in Japan, Portugal, Ethiopia, France, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Austria, Hungary, Iran and United States.[3]
