Purpurinidae

The Purpurinidae are an extinct family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Neogastropoda.

Purpurinidae

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 140 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Permian — about 4 of 274 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 30 of 274 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 18 of 274 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 97 of 274 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 20 of 274 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 62 of 274 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 24 of 274 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 19 of 274 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous263–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–252 Mya — about 3 occurrences252–247 Mya — about 27 occurrences247–242 Mya — about 6 occurrences242–237 Mya — about 17 occurrences237–232 Mya — about 38 occurrences232–227 Mya — about 6 occurrences227–221 Mya — about 7 occurrences221–216 Mya — about 7 occurrences216–211 Mya — about 8 occurrences211–206 Mya — about 9 occurrences206–201 Mya — about 28 occurrences201–195 Mya — about 9 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 1 occurrence190–185 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences185–180 Mya — about 2 occurrences180–175 Mya — about 2 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 8 occurrences169–164 Mya — about 25 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 32 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 15 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 3 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–133 Mya — about 6 occurrences133–128 Mya — about 4 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence254.14 Mya113.2 Mya263 Mya107 Mya

274 occurrences of Purpurinidae on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

274 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

59 formations

Cassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.10°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.65°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.63°N, 11.88°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°EWerfen — 46.62°N, 11.94°EWerfen — 46.35°N, 11.40°EWerfen — 46.34°N, 11.68°EWerfen — 46.37°N, 11.59°EWerfen — 46.45°N, 11.68°EWerfen — 46.36°N, 11.44°EWerfen — 46.40°N, 11.80°EWerfen — 46.29°N, 11.54°ESchlern — 46.51°N, 11.57°EDachstein Limestone — 47.36°N, 17.82°EDachstein Limestone — 47.55°N, 18.95°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°EWerfen — 43.66°N, 16.51°EWerfen — 44.12°N, 16.08°EWerfen — 44.20°N, 16.07°EWerfen — 44.11°N, 16.23°EMartin Bridge Limestone — 46.33°N, 116.73°WDhruma — 23.80°N, 46.25°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°EMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°ELuxembourg Sandstone — 49.74°N, 6.05°EWerfen — 44.17°N, 16.30°EWerfen — 43.51°N, 18.10°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.32°N, 0.03°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 48.60°N, 0.63°ENayband — 32.00°N, 57.00°ENayband — 33.02°N, 52.25°ENayband — 33.07°N, 52.03°ENehenta — 55.22°N, 131.98°WNehenta — 55.16°N, 131.75°WChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.83°EChhidru — 32.25°N, 71.08°ECsopak Marl — 47.00°N, 17.83°EBaijizu — 25.16°N, 100.13°ESan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°E"Dachstein" — 47.73°N, 15.55°E

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The named rock units Purpurinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 69 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Purpurinidae and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Purpurinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

2,485 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 169 sites for Purpurinidae, 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

81 references

Each of the 274 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. 69 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 Purpurinidae

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

No 3D scan of Purpurinidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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What may have been alongside itLittorinoidea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1895