Purpuroidea

Purpuroidea is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.

Purpuroidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PurpurinidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Littorinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Littorinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Littorinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 117 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 3 of 83 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 24 of 83 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 83 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 37 of 83 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 12 of 83 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 83 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous244–240 Mya — about 1 occurrence240–235 Mya — about 5 occurrences235–231 Mya — about 4 occurrences231–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–222 Mya — about 3 occurrences222–217 Mya — about 3 occurrences217–213 Mya — about 3 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 3 occurrences208–204 Mya — about 2 occurrences204–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence200–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences191–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–177 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences173–168 Mya — about 7 occurrences168–164 Mya — about 15 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 16 occurrences160–155 Mya — about 8 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–146 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–124 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences237 Mya119.57 Mya244 Mya111 Mya

83 occurrences of Purpuroidea on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

83 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

21 formations

Tataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°EDhahab — 32.18°N, 35.67°EDhahab — 32.12°N, 35.62°EMughanniyya — 32.18°N, 35.62°EMughanniyya — 32.18°N, 35.77°EMughanniyya — 32.10°N, 35.63°EFődolomit — 47.49°N, 19.03°EFődolomit — 46.93°N, 17.40°EFődolomit — 46.97°N, 17.31°EHamam — 32.10°N, 35.63°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.63°N, 12.21°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.93°EDachstein Limestone — 47.55°N, 18.95°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.32°N, 0.03°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 48.60°N, 0.63°EMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°ETanohata — 39.83°N, 141.98°ENayband — 33.02°N, 52.25°ENayband — 33.07°N, 52.03°ECalcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WHanifa — 23.08°N, 46.53°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°ECalcare Massiccio — 43.37°N, 12.20°E"Dachstein" — 47.73°N, 15.55°ESan Ricardo — 16.67°N, 93.53°WZohar — 30.93°N, 34.98°EMartin Bridge — 44.95°N, 117.33°WRaibl — 46.51°N, 11.58°EOberrhät — 47.70°N, 13.25°E

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The named rock units Purpuroidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Purpuroidea and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Purpuroidea and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

930 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Purpuroidea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

25 references

Each of the 83 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 13 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Purpuroidea

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lycett 1848