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Genus: | † Purpuroidea
Lycett, 1848
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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]