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| 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]
Species within this genus include: [3]
The Purpurinidae are an extinct family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Purpurinidae has no subfamilies.
Pseudomelaniidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda.
Delphinulopsidae is an extinct taxonomic family of fossil sea snails, marine, gastropod mollusks.
Potamides is a genus of prehistoric sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae.
Schilderia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Zonaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Vermetus triquetrus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.
Worthenia is a genus of fossil sea snails, an extinct marine gastropod genus found in the fossil record. This genus is primarily found in rocks formed during the Devonian to Triassic periods from the central areas of North America. Worthenia was named for the paleontologist Amos Henry Worthen who lived 1813 - 1888.
†Pseudomelania is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelaniidae.
Ampullinopsis is an extinct taxonomic genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers. Sea snails of this genus lived from Paleocene epoch to Miocene epoch.
Holopea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks in the family Holopeidae.
Fedaiella is an extinct genus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fedaiellidae, within the clade Neritimorpha.
Crommium is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.
Velates is an extinct genus of marine gastropod mollusks belonging to the family Neritidae.
Heteropurpura is an extinct genus of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.
Miolyncina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Prozonarina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Persististrombus nodosus is an extinct species of fossil sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the conchs.
Persististrombus radix is an extinct species of fossil sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the conchs.
†Zygopleura is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Zygopleuridae.
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