Undina (fish)

For other uses, see Undine.

Undina Temporal range: Triassic-Cretaceous 251.9–66.0  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Undina penicillata, at Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinistia
Order:	Coelacanthiformes
Suborder:	Latimerioidei
Family:	Latimeriidae
Genus:	† Undina 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

• Paleontology portal

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.

• The Paleobiology Database Archived 2007-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Paul H. LAMBERS redescription of the coelacanth Macropoma willemoesii VETTER from the lithographic limestone of Solnhofen (Upper Jurassic, Bavaria)
• Solnhofen