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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

Synonyms
  • Potamides (Tympanotonus) Agassiz, 1846
  • Tympanotomus Gray, 1840
  • † Tympanotonos (Eotympanotonus) Chavan, 1952 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Tympanotonus Agassiz, 1846 (unjustified emendation)

[2]

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. ^ a b c d 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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