Undichna simplicitas

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.

Undichna simplicitas
Temporal range: Upper Carboniferous ?
Trace fossil classification
Ichnogenus: Undichna
Ichnospecies: Undichna simplicitas
Binomial name
Undichna simplicitas
Anderson, 1976

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).

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