Potamides (gastropod)

Potamides; Temporal range: Permian - Quaternary PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Three fossil shells of Potamides migralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Potamididae
Genus:	† Potamides; Brongniart, 1810
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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

^ Brongniart (1810). Ann. Mus. H.N. (Paris), 15(89-90): 368.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ 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.
^ 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
^ The Paleobiology Database

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[1] Brongniart (1810). Ann. Mus. H.N. (Paris), 15(89-90): 368.

[Halder_2014-2] 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.

[Dominici_2014-3] 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.

[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

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