Undina (fish)
| Undina Temporal range: Triassic-Cretaceous
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| Undina penicillata, at Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Order: | Coelacanthiformes
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| Family: | Latimeriidae
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| Genus: | Undina Münster, 1834
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†Holophagus Egerton 1861 | |
Undina is a genus of prehistoric coelacanth, lobe-finned fish, which lived from the Triassic period to the Cretaceous period.
Species[]
- Undina acutidens Reis, 1888
- Undina barroviensis
- Undina gulo (synonym: Holophagus gulo) (type species)
- Undina penicillata (Munster)
- Undina? picena (Costa, 1862)
- Undina purbeckensis
Distribution[]
Species of this genus have been found in Cretaceous of Spain, in Jurassic of Germany, Turkey and the United Kingdom and in Triassic of Italy.
 Restoration of Undina gulo |
 Undina penicillata |
 Undina acutidens, abt. 25 cm long, at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien |
 Undina penicillata, Jurassic Painten, Germany |
References[]
- The Paleobiology Database
- Paul H. LAMBERS redescription of the coelacanth Macropoma willemoesii VETTER from the lithographic limestone of Solnhofen (Upper Jurassic, Bavaria)
- Solnhofen
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