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Tympanotonos is a genus of snail living in brackish water, a gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae. [2]
Species within this genus include: [2] [3]
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).