Kingena Temporal range: Cretaceous - early Paleocene
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Superfamily: | Kingenoidea
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Genus: | Kingena Davidson, 1852
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Terebratula lima Defrance, 1828
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Kingena is an extinct genus of primarily Cretaceous-aged brachiopods of the family Kingenidae[1] whose fossils are found in marine strata of Antarctica, Europe, and New Zealand.[2][3] Early Paleocene-aged fossils from Denmark represent the youngest species.[4]
Nearctic members have been excluded from this genus by Owen in 1970 and instead represent a separate genus, Waconella.[2]