Undichna simplicitas

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

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).

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