Biology:Potamides (gastropod)

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Short description: Genus of gastropods


Potamides
Temporal range: Permian - Quaternary
Potamides migralis.3 - Mioceno.JPG
Three fossil shells of Potamides migralis
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Potamides

Brongniart, 1810[1]
Synonyms
  • Cerithium (Potamides)
  • Cerithium (Potamis)
  • Potamides (Potamides) Brongniart, 1810
  • Potamides (Potamidopsis) Munier-Chalmas, 1900· accepted, alternate representation
  • Potamides (Tylochilus) Cossmann, 1889· accepted, alternate representation

Potamides is a genus of prehistoric sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae.

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

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

  1. Brongniart (1810). Ann. Mus. H.N. (Paris), 15(89-90): 368.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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.
  3. 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. https://www.academia.edu/10385627. 
  4. 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
  5. The Paleobiology Database

Wikidata ☰ Q7234618 entry