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, 2014
• † Potamides crassituberosus <small>Cossmann & Pissarro, 1902</small>
• † Potamides durranus Iqbal, 1969
• † Potamides isabenense Dominici & Kowalke, 2014
• † Potamides lamarckii Brongniart, 1810
• † Potamides matsoni <small>Dall, 1913</small>
• † Potamides migralis
• † Potamides mosaliensis <small>Banerjee & Halder, 2024</small>
• † 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)

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.

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