Purpurinidae

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

Fossil record
These sea snails lived between the Upper Permian or Lopingian (about 259 million years ago) and the Lower Cretaceous (about 112 million years ago). The fossils were found in Europe (Portugal, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Romania), Asia (Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, India and Japan), North America (Greenland, United States of America and Mexico) and Africa (Tunisia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania).

Genera
The following genera are recognised in the family Purpurinidae:
 * †Cretadmete Blagovetshenskiy & Shumilkin, 2006
 * †Microschiza Gemmellaro, 1878
 * †Pseudalaria Hudleston, 1889
 * †Purpurina d'Orbigny, 1850