''Potamomya'' is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
genus of
bivalve
Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
from the late
Eocene of
Europe.
References
''Potamyoma''in the
Paleobiology Database
* ''Fossils'' (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 110)
Prehistoric bivalve genera
Eocene bivalves
Eocene animals of Europe
Myida
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