Tympanotonos

Tympanotonos
Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent
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[1][2]
Synonyms
  • Potamides (Tympanotonus) Agassiz, 1846
  • Tympanotomus Gray, 1840
  • Tympanotonus Agassiz, 1846 (unjustified emendation)

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Tympanotonos is a genus of snail living in brackish water, a gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae. [2]

Extant and extinct species

Species within this genus include: [2][3]

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. 1 2 3 4 WoRMS
  3. Fossilworks

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