Undichna simplicitas

Taxobox
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name = "Undichna simplicitas"


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image_caption =
fossil_range = Upper Carboniferous - ?
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
genus = "Undichna"
(Ichnogenus)
species = "Undichna simplicitas"
(Ichnospecies)
binomial = "Undichna simplicitas"
binomial_authority = Anderson

"Undichna simplicitas" is a fish-fin, or fish-swimming fossil trackway left as a fossil impression on a substrate; this type of fossil is an ichnofossil, and in this case an ichnospecies. The ichnogenus for the fish-fin, or fish tracks is named "Undichna".

Fossil trackways of "Undichna simplicitas" have been found in Alabama, USA, in the Pottsville Form, (Westphalian A, Upper Carboniferous, coal mine and tailings); also Indiana, Kansas, and Spain, (El Montsec and Las Hoyas).

ee also

*Trace fossil
*Fossil trackway

External links

* [http://listserv.rediris.es/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0008&L=skolithos&P=2745 Birmingham Paleontological Society (PBS) report] – Alabama, USA
* [http://www2.biology.ualberta.ca/wilson.hp/mesofish/MFNA-CL.html Reference list-515, 657] – University of Alberta