Biology:Undina (fish)

Short description: Extinct genus of coelacanths

Undina Temporal range: Triassic-Cretaceous
Undina penicillata, at Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sarcopterygii
Order:	Coelacanthiformes
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.

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

Wikidata ☰ Q4383398 entry