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Genus of gastropods

Tympanotonos
Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil shell of Tympanotonus margaritaceum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Potamididae
Genus: Tympanotonos
Schumacher, 1817
Synonyms
  • Potamides (Tympanotonus) Agassiz, 1846
  • Tympanotomus Gray, 1840
  • Tympanotonos (Eotympanotonus) Chavan, 1952 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Tympanotonus Agassiz, 1846 (unjustified emendation)

Tympanotonos is a genus of snail living in brackish water, a gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae.

Extant and extinct species

Species within this genus include:

Fossils species within this genus can be found in sediment of Europe, United States, South Africa, Japan, Venezuela and Indonesia from Cretaceous to Quaternary (age range: 84.9 to 0.012 Ma).

References

  1. Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test. 64: 211.
  2. ^ WoRMS
  3. Fossilworks
  • Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475

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Taxon identifiers
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