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Uncites

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Uncites
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
Fossil specimen of Uncites gryphus from Devonian Germany
Scientific classification
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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

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  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.