Undina (fish)

For other uses, see Undine.

Undina
Temporal range: Triassic-Cretaceous
Undina penicillata, at Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinistia
Order: Coelacanthiformes
Suborder: Latimerioidei
Family: Latimeriidae
Genus: †
Münster, 1834
Synonyms

†Holophagus Egerton 1861

Undina is a genus of prehistoric coelacanth, lobe-finned fish, which lived from the Triassic period to the Cretaceous period (Only ranges Sinemurian to Tithonian according to 2021 study[1]).

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

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  1. ^ Cavin, Lionel; Piuz, André; Ferrante, Christophe; Guinot, Guillaume (2021-06-03). "Giant Mesozoic coelacanths (Osteichthyes, Actinistia) reveal high body size disparity decoupled from taxic diversity". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 11812. Bibcode:2021NatSR..1111812C. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-90962-5. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8175595. PMID 34083600.


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