Coenites

Coenites
Temporal range: 443.4–353.8 Ma
C. laqueata fossil, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: †Tabulata
Family: †Coenitidae
Genus: †Coenites
Eichwald, 1829
Species
  • †Coenites dunginensis Sharkova, 1981
  • †Coenites elegans Mironova, 1974[1]
  • †Coenites sharaobensis Sharkova, 1981

Coenites is an extinct genus of prehistoric corals in the family Coenitidae. C dublinensis occurs in the Columbus Limestone, a mapped bedrock unit consisting primarily of fossiliferous limestone, and it occurs in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in the United States, and in Ontario, Canada.

  1. ^ Mironova N.V. (MIPOHOBA, H.B.) 1974. Rannedevonskie tabulyaty Gornogo Altaya i Salaira (Early Devonian Tabulata from Gornyy Altay Mountains and Salair). Tr. Sibirsko-go Nauchno-Issled. Inst. Geol. Geofiz. Mineral. Syrya, (163): 1, 166, pls. 1, 81. (In Russian.),