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.

File:Holophagus gulo Lankester 1909.jpg 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