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Genus: | † Potamides Brongniart, 1810 [1] |
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Potamides is a genus of prehistoric sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae.
Species within the genus Potamides include:
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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]
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Scutus is a genus of large sea snails or limpets with the common name "shield shells". These are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
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Cerithium is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.
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† Potamides archiaci is an extinct species of sea snail, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Potamididae.
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