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Potamides (gastropod)

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Genus of gastropods This article is about a genus of sea snails. For the mythological nymphs, see Potamides (mythology).

Potamides
Temporal range: Permian - Quaternary PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Three fossil shells of Potamides migralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Potamididae
Genus: † Potamides
Brongniart, 1810
Synonyms
  • Cerithium (Potamides)
  • Cerithium (Potamis)
  • Potamides (Potamides) Brongniart, 1810
  • † Potamides (Potamidopsis) Munier-Chalmas, 1900· accepted, alternate representation
  • † Potamides (Tylochilus) Cossmann, 1889· accepted, alternate representation

Potamides is a genus of prehistoric sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae.

Species

Fossil shells of Potamides tricarinatus from Eocene of Italy

Species within the genus Potamides include:

Synonyms:

Fossil record

Fossils of Potamides are found in marine strata from the Permian to the Quaternary(age range: from 265.0 to 1.806 million years ago.). Fossils are known from many localities in Europe, Indonesia, Africa, North America, South America, Pakistan, Japan and Cambodia.

References

  1. Brongniart (1810). Ann. Mus. H.N. (Paris), 15(89-90): 368.
  2. ^ Halder K. & Sinha P. (2014). "Some Eocene Cerithioids (Gastropoda, Mollusca) from Kutch, Western India, and Their Bearing on Palaeobiogeography of the Indian Subcontinent". Paleontology Journal 2014: Article ID 673469, 11 pp. doi:10.1155/2014/673469.
  3. Stefano Dominici; Thorsten Kowalke (2014). "Early Eocene Cerithioidean gastropods of mangrove-fringed coasts (South-central Pyrenees, Spain)". Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 53 (3): 137–162.
  4. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2016). Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=238094 on 2017-05-08
  5. The Paleobiology Database
Taxon identifiers
Potamides


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