Purpuroidea
# Purpuroidea

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

## Fossil record

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). 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.

## Species

Species within this genus include:

* † Purpuroidea acatlana Alencaster and Buitron 1965
* † Purpuroidea applanata Kittl 1894
* † Purpuroidea cerithiformis Kittl 1894
* † Purpuroidea crassenodosa Kittl 1894
* † Purpuroidea praecursor Fischer et al. 2002
* † Purpuroidea rugosa Böhm 1895
* † Purpuroidea subcerithiformis Kittl 1894
