Uncites

Uncites
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
Fossil specimen of Uncites gryphus from Devonian Germany
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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. Representatives of this genus are known from Middle Devonian deposits in Europe and Asia.

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.