Uncites

{{Short description|Extinct genus of brachiopods}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Middle Devonian}} | image = Uncitidae - Uncites gryphus.JPG | image_caption = Fossil specimen of ''Uncites gryphus'' from Devonian Germany | display_parents = 2 | grandparent_authority = d'Orbigny, 1847 | parent_authority = d'Orbigny, 1847 | taxon = Uncites | authority = Defrance, 1825 }}

'''''Uncites''''' is an extinct genus of brachiopods in the monogeneric family '''Uncitidae'''.<ref name=TIP>{{cite journal |last1=Alvarez |first1=Fernando |last2=MacKinnon |first2=D. I. |last3=Savage |first3=N. M. |last4=Jia-Yu |first4=Rong |last5=Carlson |first5=S. J. |last6=Cooper |first6=Paul |year=2002 |title=Part H, Brachiopoda (Revised) |journal=Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology |volume=4 |pages=1613–1614 |doi=10.17161/dt.v0i0.5569 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Representatives of this genus are known from Middle Devonian deposits in Europe and Asia.<ref name=encyc>{{cite book |last1=Ivanov |first1=Martin |last2=Hrdličková |first2=Stanislava |last3=Gregorová |first3=Růžena |year=2002 |title=The Complete Encyclopedia of Fossils |publisher=Rebo International |location=The Netherlands |page=203 |isbn=1-931040-12-5 |oclc=1335929243}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}} * [https://www.fossilworks.org Paleobiology Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325060448/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home |date=2022-03-25 }} * R. T. Becker, W. T. Kirchgasser [https://books.google.com/books?id=3hLRklY9pYEC&dq=uncites+genus&pg=PA158 Devonian Events and Correlations] * Thomas Davidson [https://books.google.com/books?id=-KIDS_auPesC&dq=uncites+genus&pg=PA89 British Fossil Brachiopoda]

Category:Prehistoric brachiopod genera Category:Rhynchonellata Category:Taxa described in 1825