Malacostraca - Decapoda - Potamidae
Synonyms: Archithelphusa Bott 1955, Proballaya Bott 1955, Propotamonautes Bott 1955, Pseudopotamon Bott 1955, Telphusa Latreille 1819, Thelpheusa Latreille 1819, Thelphusa Latreille 1819
Parent taxon: Potaminae according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2020
See also Dana 1851, Feldmann et al. 2007, Klaus and Gross 2010, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Acanthopotamon
Subtaxa: Potamon (Pontipotamon) Potamon (Potamon) Potamon castellinense Potamon hegauense Potamon hungaricum Potamon ibericum Potamon potamios Potamon proavitum Potamon quenstedti Potamon sivalense Potamon speciosus Telphusa speciosa
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Hungary (2 collections), Israel (2), Slovakia (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (1)
• Pliocene of India (1)
• Miocene of Austria (6), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Germany (8), Italy (1), Slovakia (2), Türkiye (3)
Total: 28 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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