Tympanotonos Explained

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

Extant and extinct species

Species within this genus include:^[1]

• † 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

• 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

• 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

Notes and References

1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=taxonInfo&is_real_user=1&taxon_no=10644 Fossilworks