Biology:Muensterellidae
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Short description: Family of octopuses
| Muensterellidae | |
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| Fossil of Muensterella scutellaris | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Order: | Octopoda
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| Family: | †Muensterellidae
Roger, 1952 |
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†Enchoteuthinae | |
Muensterellidae is a family of stem-octopod cephalopods from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous.
Phylogeny
Muensterellidae is one of two families in the superfamily Muensterelloidea along with the Patelloctopodidae. The muensterelloids are characterized by having a roughly spoon-shaped end of the gladius called the patella. This type of gladius is likely ancestral to the gladius remnants of modern octopuses.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Fuchs, D.; Schweigert, G. (2018). "First Middle–Late Jurassic gladius vestiges provide new evidence on the detailed origin of incirrate and cirrate octopuses (Coleoidea).". PalZ 92 (2): 203–217. doi:10.1007/s12542-017-0399-8.
- ↑ Fuchs, Dirk; Iba, Yasuhiro; Heyng, Alexander; Iijima, Masaya; Klug, Christian; Larson, Neal L.; Schweigert, Günter (February 2020). Brayard, Arnaud. ed. "The Muensterelloidea: phylogeny and character evolution of Mesozoic stem octopods" (in en). Papers in Palaeontology 6 (1): 31–92. doi:10.1002/spp2.1254. ISSN 2056-2802. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1254.
Wikidata ☰ Q30434538 entry
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