Potamides (gastropod)
Potamides is a genus of prehistoric sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae.
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Species
Fossil shells of Potamides tricarinatus from Eocene of Italy
Species within the genus Potamides include:
- † Potamides archiaci Halder & Sinha, 2014[2]
- † Potamides crassituberosus Cossmann & Pissarro, 1902
- † Potamides durranus Iqbal, 1969[2]
- † Potamides isabenense Dominici & Kowalke, 2014[3]
- † Potamides lamarckii Brongniart, 1810
- † Potamides matsoni Dall, 1913
- † Potamides migralis
- † Potamides pascoei Cox, 1931[2]
- † Potamides tricarinatus
- and other extinct taxa
Potamides disjuncta
Potamides mixtus
Potamides tricarinatus
Potamides tricinctus
Synonyms:
- Potamides conicus (Blainville, 1829) is a synonym of extant species Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829)[4]
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.[5]
References
- Brongniart (1810). Ann. Mus. H.N. (Paris), 15(89-90): 368.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- The Paleobiology Database
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