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Potamididae

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Tympanotonos funatus

Abbey Wood, Bexley, Greater London, England, UK

Potamides sp.

La Chapelle-en-Serval, Senlis, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France

Tympanotonos funatus

Abbey Wood, Bexley, Greater London, England, UK

Potamides sp.

La Chapelle-en-Serval, Senlis, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France

Tympanotonos funatus

Abbey Wood, Bexley, Greater London, England, UK

Potamides sp.

La Chapelle-en-Serval, Senlis, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France

Description

Potamididae, common name potamidids (also known as horn snails or mudwhelks) are a family of small to large brackish water snails that live on mud flats, mangroves and similar habitats. They are amphibious gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamididae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 4.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	7067	https://www.gbif.org/species/7067
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	61893	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=61893

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Potamididae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Sorbeoconcha : Potamididae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
order	Sorbeoconcha	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
superfamily	Cerithioidea	(Férussac 1819)
family	Potamididae	(Adams and Adams 1854)

Common Name

horn snail

Scientific Name

Potamididae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Potamididae	family	belongs to Cerithiacea	stated without evidence	Sohl, 1964
Potamididae	family	belongs to Mesogastropoda	stated without evidence	Givens and Kennedy, 1976
Potamididae	family	belongs to Cerithiacea	stated with evidence	Gliozzi and Malatesta, 1983
Potamididae	family	belongs to Cerithioidea	stated with evidence	Ponder and Warén, 1988
Potamididae	family	belongs to Cerithiacea	stated without evidence	Beu et al., 1990
Potamididae	family	belongs to Cerithioidea	stated without evidence	Marquet, 1997
Potamididae	family	belongs to Cerithioidea	implied	Beesley, 1998
Potamididae	family	belongs to Cerithioidea	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Potamididae	family	belongs to Cerithioidea	stated without evidence	Harzhauser and Mandic, 2001
Potamididae	family	belongs to Cerithioidea	stated with evidence	Harzhauser, 2004
Potamididae	family	belongs to Cerithioidea	stated without evidence	Harzhauser, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

175

Extant Size (PBDB)

26 (15%)

First Recorded Appearance

265 - 260 Ma
Permian

Motility

actively mobile

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: Herbivore on fine-grained substrates according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. L. Beesley. 1998. Mollusca: the southern synthesis. Fauna of Australia 5

Common Name(s)

Teleskopschnecken, Mud Whelks, Telescope Snails, フトヘナタリ／キバウミニナ, Horn Snail, Horn Shells

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamididae

External Images

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Potamidinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	Horn Snail	81	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Tiaracerithiinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Atractostoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Bittiscala ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Caballasea ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Canaliscala ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Cedrosia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Cerithidea genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		139	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Cerithideops genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Cerithideopsis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dentimides genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Diastomella ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Diplocyma ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Diptychochilus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dircella ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Echinobathra ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Exechocirsus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		15	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pyrazopsis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		52	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Hadraxon genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Harrisianella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	11.6 Ma Miocene
Lagunitus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	37.2 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Libycerithium ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mesohalina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		28	38.0 Ma Eocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Nodifaunus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Papposilenus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Pirenella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		47	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Potamides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		376	265 Ma Permian	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Potamidopsis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rhinotamides ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Serratocerithium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	61.6 Ma Paleocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Szaboella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tateiwaia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Telescopium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		27	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Terebralia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		121	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Trempotamides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Tympanotonos genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		202	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Tympanotonus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urgonella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Varicipotamides genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vicarya ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		31	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	11.6 Ma Miocene
Vicaryella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		19	23.0 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene
Zeacumantus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		17	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Amphidesma bicolor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphidesma proximum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphidesma striosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphidesma tortuosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphidesma ventricosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyclindrella vignalensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Limocina meridionalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ptychochochlis gossei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Puparubella rubella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Uricoptis caribbaea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Uricoptis ekmani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Telescopiidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Telescopiidae
Cerithideidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Cerithideidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1854	Potamidinae Adams and Adams
1950	Telescopiidae Alan p. 86
1959	Potamidinae Woodring p. 176
1960	Potamidinae MacNeil p. 39
1964	Potamididae Sohl p. 363
1964	Potamidinae Sohl p. 363
1976	Potamididae Givens and Kennedy p. 963
1983	Potamididae Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 101
1983	Potamidinae Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 101
1988	Cerithideidae Houbrick
1988	Cerithideidae Ponder and Warén p. 294
1988	Potamididae Ponder and Warén p. 294
1989	Potamidinae Robba et al. p. 74
1990	Potamididae Beu et al. p. 406
1995	Cerithideidae Pacaud and Le Renard p. 156

Year	Name and Author
1995	Potamidinae Pacaud and Le Renard p. 156
1997	Potamididae Marquet p. 9
1997	Potamidinae Marquet p. 9
1998	Potamididae Beesley p. 724
2001	Potamididae Harzhauser and Mandic p. 694
2001	Potamididae Todd
2002	Potamididae Harzhauser p. 74
2002	Potamidinae Harzhauser p. 74
2002	Potamididae Harzhauser and Kowalke p. 66
2003	Potamididae Saul and Squires p. 444
2004	Potamididae Harzhauser p. 118
2005	Potamididae Bouchet et al. p. 249
2006	Potamidinae Perrilliat et al. p. 155
2007	Potamididae Harzhauser p. 95

References

Beesley P. L. (1998) Mollusca: the southern synthesis, Fauna of Australia 5

Woodring W. P. (1959) Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 B, 147-239

MacNeil F. S. (1960) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339, 1-148

Sohl N. F. (1964) Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi, USGS Professional Paper 331C, 345-394

Givens C. R., Kennedy M. P. (1976) Middle Eocene mollusks from northern San Diego County, California, Journal of Paleontology 50 5, 954-975

Gliozzi E., Malatesta A. (1983) I molluschi del Paleocene di Baixa Chinhauanine nel bacino del Rio Massintonto (Maputo - Mozambico), Geologica Romana 22, 85-145

Ponder W. F., Warén A. (1988) Appendix: classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - a list of the family-group names and higher taxa, Malacological Review Suppl. 4, 288-326

Robba E., Sartono S., et al (1989) Early Pleistocene gastropods from Timor, Memorie di Scienze Geologiche 31, 61-113

Beu A. G., Maxwell P.A., et al (1990) Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 58

Pacaud J.-M., Le Renard J. (1995) Révision des Mollusques Paléogénes du Bassin de Paris. IV - Liste systématique actualisée, Cossmanniana 3 4, 155-187

Marquet R. (1997) Pliocene gastropod faunas from Kallo (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium) - Part 2. Caenogastropoda: Potamididae-Tornidae, Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology 34 1-2, 9-29

Harzhauser M., Mandic O. (2001) Late Oligocene gastropods and bivalves from the Lower and Upper Austrian Molasse Basin, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Komimissionen 14, 671-795

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Harzhauser M. (2002) Marine und brachyhaline Gastropoden aus dem Karpatium des Korneubuger Beckens und der Kreuzstettener Bucht (Österreich, Untermiozän), Beiträge zur Paläontologie 27, 61-159

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