Tympanotonos

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Cerithioidea Higher classification Potamididae		Phylum Mollusca Family Potamididae Rank Genus

Similar Tympanotonos fuscatus, Gastropods, Molluscs, Potamididae, Potamides

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:

† Tympanotonus calcaratus (Grateloup, 1840)

† Tympanotonus conarius (Bayan, 1873)

Tympanotonos fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (the only extant species)

† Tympanotonus margaritaceum (Brongniart)

† 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).

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