Niobrarateuthis
Appearance
Niobrarateuthis Temporal range: Cretaceous
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Octopoda |
Family: | †Muensterellidae |
Genus: | †Niobrarateuthis Walker, 1957 |
Type species | |
Niobrarateuthis bonneri Walker, 1957
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Niobrarateuthis is an extinct genus of large cephalopod from the Cretaceous. It is closely related to the Cretaceous Tusoteuthis and the Jurassic Muensterella.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Fuchs, D.; Reitano, A.; Insacco, G.; Iba, Y. (2016). "The first coleoid cephalopods from the Upper Cenomanian of Sicily (Italy) and their implications for the systematic-phylogenetic position of the Palaeololiginidae (Teudopseina)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 15 (6): 499–512. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1199055.