Kingena

{{Short description|Extinct genus of brachiopods}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | fossil_range = Cretaceous - early Paleocene | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Kingena | authority = Davidson, 1852 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = | type_species = ''Terebratula lima'' | type_species_authority = Defrance, 1828 }} {{Portal|Paleontology}} '''''Kingena''''' is an extinct genus of primarily Cretaceous-aged brachiopods of the family Kingenidae<ref name="Sanadinovo">{{cite journal |last1=Bitner |first1=Maria Aleksandra |last2=Motchurova-Dekova |first2=Neda |date=2005 |title=Brachiopods from the Sanadinovo Formation (Lower Cenomanian) in northern Bulgaria |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=525–539 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2005.02.008|bibcode=2005CrRes..26..525B }}</ref> whose fossils are found in marine strata of Antarctica, Europe, and New Zealand.<ref name="Owen 1970">{{cite journal |last=Owen |first=Ellis Frederic |date=1970 |title=A Revision of the Brachiopod Subfamily Kingeninae Elliott |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, London (Geology) |volume=19 |pages=29–83}}</ref><ref name="Treatise">{{cite book |editor-last=Kaesler |editor-first=R.L. |last1=Williams |first1=Alwyn |last2=Sandy |first2=M.R. |last3=Carlson |first3=S.J. |last4=Lee |first4=D.E. |last5=Johnson |first5=J.G. |last6=Smirnova |first6=T.N. |last7=Jin |first7=Yu-Gan |last8=Hou |first8=Hong-Fei |last9=Carter |first9=J.L. |last10=Gourvennec |first10=Rémy |last11=Racheboeuf |first11=P.R. |last12=Brunton |first12=C.H.C. |last13=Dagys |first13=A.S. |last14=Curry |first14=G.B. |last15=Baker |first15=P.G. |last16=Sun |first16=Dong-Li |last17=MacKinnon |first17=D.I. |date=2006 |title=Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part H, Brachiopoda (Revised) |volume=5 |location=New York & Lawrence |publisher=Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press |pages=1689–2320|isbn=}}</ref> Early Paleocene-aged fossils from Denmark represent the youngest species.<ref name="Denmark">{{cite journal |last1=Surlyk |first1=F. |last2=Johansen |first2=M.B. |date=1984 |title=End-Cretaceous brachiopod extinctions in the chalk of Denmark |journal=Science |volume=223 |issue=4641 |pages=1174–1177 |doi=10.1126/science.223.4641.1174 |pmid=17742931 |bibcode=1984Sci...223.1174S }}</ref>

== Taxonomy == Nearctic members have been excluded from this genus by Owen in 1970 and instead represent a separate genus, ''Waconella''.<ref name="Owen 1970" />

== Select species == * ''Kingena blackmorei'' Owen, 1970<ref name="Simon 2005" /> * ''Kingena concinna'' Owen, 1970<ref name="Sanadinovo" /> * ''Kingena elegans'' Owen, 1970<ref name="Sandy 1991" /> * ''Kingena limburgica'' Simon, 2005<ref name="Simon 2005">{{cite journal |last=Simon |first=E. |date=2005 |title=New Lower Maastrichtian brachiopods (Gulpen Formation, Vijlen Member) from southern Limburg (The Netherlands) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274716593 |journal=Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre |volume=75 |pages=127–165 |doi= |access-date=December 22, 2021}}</ref> * ''Kingena mesembrina'' (Etheridge, 1913)<ref name="Sandy 1991">{{cite journal |last=Sandy |first=Michael R. |date=1991 |title=Cretaceous Brachiopods from James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula, and Their Paleobiogeographic Affinities |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1305787 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=396–411 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000030377 |jstor=1305787 |bibcode=1991JPal...65..396S |access-date=December 22, 2021|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * ''Kingena pentangulata'' Woodward, 1833<ref name="Simon 2005" /> * ''Kingena simiensis'' Waring, 1917<ref name="Waring 1917">{{cite journal |last=Waring |first=C.A. |date=1917 |title=Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/57169 |journal=Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=41–124 |access-date=December 22, 2021}}</ref>

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Category:Terebratulida Category:Prehistoric brachiopod genera Category:Cretaceous brachiopods Category:Paleogene brachiopods Category:Cretaceous brachiopods of Europe Category:Paleocene animals of Europe Category:Extinct animals of Antarctica Category:Cretaceous genus first appearances Category:Maastrichtian genera Category:Danian genera Category:Paleocene genus extinctions