Potamides janeae Devries 2019 (horn snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Potamididae

Full reference: T. J. Devries. 2019. Early Paleogene brackish-water molluscs from the Caballas Formation of the East Pisco Basin (Southern Peru). Journal of Natural History 53(25-26):1533-1584

Belongs to Potamides according to T. J. Devries 2019

Sister taxa: Potamides (Lampanella), Potamides (Potamides), Potamides (Potamidopsis), Potamides (Ptychopotamides), Potamides archiaci, Potamides avus, Potamides cancelloides, Potamides caobasensis, Potamides carbonicola, Potamides chira, Potamides corrugatum, Potamides diadema, Potamides gracilior, Potamides henryi, Potamides hondensis, Potamides huzutai, Potamides isabenense, Potamides lamarcki, Potamides lamarckii, Potamides lewisiana, Potamides maracaibensis, Potamides matsoni, Potamides occidentalis, Potamides roumaini, Potamides saltillensis, Potamides satillensis, Potamides sespeensis, Potamides silverdalensis, Potamides sisophonensis, Potamides suprasulcatus, Potamides trituberculatus

Type specimen: UWBM 107579, a shell. Its type locality is UWBM B8771, which is in a Ypresian coastal horizon in the Caballas Formation of Peru.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at UWBM B8771

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