Biology:Proteroctopus
| Proteroctopus | |
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| Proteroctopus ribeti holotype. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Clade: | Vampyropoda |
| Genus: | †Proteroctopus |
| Species: | †P. ribeti
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| Binomial name | |
| †Proteroctopus ribeti Fischer & Riou, 1982
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Proteroctopus is an extinct genus of cephalopod that lived in the Middle Jurassic, approximately 164 million years ago. It is only known from a single species P. ribeti. The single fossil specimen assigned to this species originates from the Lower Callovian of Voulte-sur-Rhône in France . It is currently on display at the Musée de Paléontologie de La Voulte-sur-Rhône.[1] While originally interpreted as an early octopus, a 2016 restudy of the specimen considered it to be a basal member of the Vampyropoda, less closely related to octopus or vampire squid than either of the two groups are to each other.[2] A phylogenetic analysis by Kruta et. al indicates that Proteroctopus may be more closely related to the Vampyromorpha based on its unique morphology: two fins, head fused to the body, eight arms, two rows of oblique sucker, a gladius and absence of an ink sac.[2] A 2022 phylogenetic analysis also found it to be more closely related to vampire squid than to octopuses.[3]
The morphology of P. ribeti suggests a necto-epipelagic mode of life.[1]
See also
- Jeletzkya douglassae
- Palaeoctopus newboldi
- Vampyronassa rhodanica
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fischer, J.C.; B. Riou (1982). "Le plus ancien octopode connu (Cephalopoda, Dibranchiata): Proteroctopus ribeti nov. gen., nov. sp., du Callovien de l'Ardèche (France)". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série II 295: 277–280.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kruta, Isabelle; Rouget, Isabelle; Charbonnier, Sylvain; Bardin, Jérémie; Fernandez, Vincent; Germain, Damien; Brayard, Arnaud; Landman, Neil (November 2016). Korn, Dieter. ed. "Proteroctopus ribeti in coleoid evolution" (in en). Palaeontology 59 (6): 767–773. doi:10.1111/pala.12265. Bibcode: 2016Palgy..59..767K.
- ↑ Whalen, Christopher D.; Landman, Neil H. (2022-03-08). "Fossil coleoid cephalopod fr-28333-5/" (in en). Nature Communications 13 (1): 1107. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28333-5. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 35260548.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3924221 entry
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