Tympanotonos

Tympanotonos is a genus of snail living in brackish water, a gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae.[2]

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)

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Extant and extinct species

Species 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).

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References
  1. Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test. 64: 211.
  2. 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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