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. Bibcode:2005CrRes..26..525B. 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. Bibcode:1984Sci...223.1174S. doi:10.1126/science.223.4641.1174. PMID 17742931.
  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. Bibcode:1991JPal...65..396S. doi:10.1017/S0022336000030377. JSTOR 1305787. 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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