Potamides (gastropod)

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
	Pirenella Gray, 1847

Potamides is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Potamides include:

Potamides conicus (Blainville, 1829)^[2]
and other extinct taxa

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.^[3]

Fossil shells of Potamides tricarinatus from Eocene of Italy

References

^ ^a ^b Potamides Brongniart, 1810. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
^ Potamides conicus (Blainville, 1829). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
^ The Paleobiology Database

External links

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[WoRMS-1] Potamides Brongniart, 1810. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.

[2] Potamides conicus (Blainville, 1829). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.

[3] The Paleobiology Database

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