Biology:Argonauta tokunagai
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Short description: Extinct species of mollusc
| Argonauta tokunagai | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Family: | Argonautidae |
| Genus: | Argonauta |
| Species: | †A. tokunagai
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| Binomial name | |
| †Argonauta tokunagai Yokoyama, 1913
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Argonauta tokunagai is an extinct species of octopus. It was described in 1913 based on fossil material from the Middle Miocene Huzina Formation of Japan .[1]
Undescribed fossil species of Argonauta related to this taxon have been temporarily designated Argonauta cf. tokunagai and Argonauta "tokunagai".[2]
References
- ↑ Martill, David M.; Barker, Michael J. (2006). "A Paper Nautilus (Octopoda, Argonauta) from the Miocene Pakhna Formation of Cyprus". Palaeontology 49 (5): 1035–1041. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00578.x. Bibcode: 2006Palgy..49.1035M. https://www.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00578.x.
- ↑ Yanagisawa, Y. 1990. "Age of fossil Argonautidae (Cephalopoda) from Hokuriku Province (central Honshu, Japan) based on diatom biostratigraphy.". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927010041/http://www.gsj.jp/Pub/Bull/vol_41/41-03_02.pdf. (1.90 MiB) Bull. Geol. Surv. Japan 41(3): 115-127.
- Kobayashi, T. (1956). A palaeo-meteorological interpretation to the occurrence of the Argonautinae in Province Kaga, central Japan. Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography 27(2–4): 93–104.
Wikidata ☰ Q4789676 entry
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