Kingena

Kingena is an extinct genus of primarily Cretaceous-aged brachiopods of the family Kingenidae[1] whose fossils are found in marine strata of Antarctica, Europe, and New Zealand.[2][3] Early Paleocene-aged fossils from Denmark represent the youngest species.[4]

Kingena
Temporal range: Cretaceous - early Paleocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Order:
Terebratulida
Suborder:
Terebratellidina
Superfamily:
Kingenoidea
Family:
Kingenidae
Genus:
Kingena

Davidson, 1852
Type species
Terebratula lima
Defrance, 1828

Taxonomy

Nearctic members have been excluded from this genus by Owen in 1970 and instead represent a separate genus, Waconella.[2]

Select species
  • Kingena blackmorei Owen, 1970[5]
  • Kingena concinna Owen, 1970[1]
  • Kingena elegans Owen, 1970[6]
  • Kingena limburgica Simon, 2005[5]
  • Kingena mesembrina (Etheridge, 1913)[6]
  • Kingena pentangulata Woodward, 1833[5]
  • Kingena simiensis Waring, 1917[7]

Sources
  1. Bitner, Maria Aleksandra; Motchurova-Dekova, Neda (2005). "Brachiopods from the Sanadinovo Formation (Lower Cenomanian) in northern Bulgaria". Cretaceous Research. 26 (4): 525–539. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2005.02.008.
  2. Owen, Ellis Frederic (1970). "A Revision of the Brachiopod Subfamily Kingeninae Elliott". Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, London (Geology). 19: 29–83.
  3. Williams, Alwyn; Sandy, M.R.; Carlson, S.J.; Lee, D.E.; Johnson, J.G.; Smirnova, T.N.; Jin, Yu-Gan; Hou, Hong-Fei; Carter, J.L.; Gourvennec, Rémy; Racheboeuf, P.R.; Brunton, C.H.C.; Dagys, A.S.; Curry, G.B.; Baker, P.G.; Sun, Dong-Li; MacKinnon, D.I. (2006). Kaesler, R.L. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part H, Brachiopoda (Revised). Vol. 5. New York & Lawrence: Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press. pp. 1689–2320.
  4. Surlyk, F.; Johansen, M.B. (1984). "End-Cretaceous brachiopod extinctions in the chalk of Denmark". Science. 223 (4641): 1174–1177. doi:10.1126/science.223.4641.1174.
  5. Simon, E. (2005). "New Lower Maastrichtian brachiopods (Gulpen Formation, Vijlen Member) from southern Limburg (The Netherlands)". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre. 75: 127–165. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
  6. Sandy, Michael R. (1991). "Cretaceous Brachiopods from James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula, and Their Paleobiogeographic Affinities". Journal of Paleontology. 65 (3): 396–411. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
  7. Waring, C.A. (1917). "Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 7 (4): 41–124. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
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