Tympanotonos is a genus of snail living in brackish water, a gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae.[2]
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Extant and extinct species
editSpecies within this genus include:[2][3]
- † Tympanotonus calcaratus (Grateloup, 1840)
- † Tympanotonus conarius (Bayan, 1873)
- Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (the only extant species)
- † Tympanotonus margaritaceum (Brongniart)
- † Tympanotonos redoniensis Van Dingenen, Ceulemans & Landau, 2016
- † Tympanotonus semperi (Deshaye, 1864)
- † Tympanotonos stroppus Brongniart 1823
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
edit- Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475
External links
edit- DANIELA ESU and ODOARDO GIROTTI THE LATE OLIGOCENE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA FROM OTRANTO (APULIA, SOUTHERN ITALY): AN EXAMPLE OF ALTERNATING FRESHWATER, LAGOONAL AND EMERGED ENVIRONMENTS
- Geocities - Potamidae
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