Muensterella
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| Muensterella | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Family: | †Muensterellidae |
| Genus: | †Muensterella Schevill, 1950 |
| Type species | |
| Muensterella scutellaris Münster, 1842
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Muensterella is a fossil stem-octopod known from a handful of specimens from the Late Jurassic lithographic limestones of southern Germany and the upper Cretaceous of Germany and Texas. Another indeterminate specimen of the Genus is known from the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Nordenskjöld Formation of Antarctica.[1][2]
References
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- ^ Coleoid cephalopods through time (Warnke K., Keupp H., Boletzky S. v., eds) Berliner Paläobiol. Abh. 03 101-111 Berlin 2003 New Records of Soft Parts of Muensterella scutelaris Muenter, 1842 (Coleoidea) From the Late Jurassic Plattenkalks of Eichstätt and Their Significance for Octobrachian Relationships. D. Fuchs*, H. Keupp & Th. Engeser
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