Potamides (gastropod)

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

Species

Species within the genus Potamides include: † Potamides archiaci Halder & Sinha, 2014Halder 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. . † Potamides crassituberosus Cossmann & Pissarro, 1902 † Potamides durranus Iqbal, 1969 † Potamides isabenense Dominici & Kowalke, 2014 † Potamides lamarckii Brongniart, 1810 † Potamides matsoni Dall, 1913 † Potamides migralis † Potamides mosaliensis Banerjee & Halder, 2024 † Potamides pascoei Cox, 1931 † Potamides shahensis Banerjee & Halder, 2024 † Potamides tricarinatus and other extinct taxa

Synonyms: Potamides conicus (Blainville, 1829) is a synonym of extant species Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829)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

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. The Paleobiology Database

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