Uncites

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Uncites
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
Uncitidae - Uncites gryphus.JPG
Fossil specimen of Uncites gryphus from Devonian Germany
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Rhynchonellata
Order: Athyridida
Superfamily: Uncitoidea
d'Orbigny, 1847
Family: Uncitidae
d'Orbigny, 1847
Genus: Uncites
Defrance, 1825

Uncites is an extinct genus of brachiopods in the monogeneric family Uncitidae. [1] Representatives of this genus are known from Middle Devonian deposits in Europe and Asia. [2]

References

  1. Alvarez, Fernando; MacKinnon, D. I.; Savage, N. M.; Jia-Yu, Rong; Carlson, S. J.; Cooper, Paul (2002). "Part H, Brachiopoda (Revised)". Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology . 4: 1613–1614. doi: 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5569 .
  2. Ivanov, Martin; Hrdličková, Stanislava; Gregorová, Růžena (2002). The Complete Encyclopedia of Fossils. The Netherlands: Rebo International. p. 203. ISBN   1-931040-12-5. OCLC   1335929243.