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
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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

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Species within this genus include:[2][3]

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

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  1. ^ Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test. 64: 211.
  2. ^ a b c d 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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