Biology:Provampyroteuthis
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Short description: Extinct genus of cephalopods
| Provampyroteuthis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Vampyromorphida |
| Family: | Vampyroteuthidae |
| Genus: | †Provampyroteuthis Kanie, 1998[1] |
| Species: | †P. giganteus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Provampyroteuthis giganteus Kanie, 1998
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Provampyroteuthis is an extinct genus of vampire squids from the Late Cretaceous of Japan . It contains one species, P. giganteus. It is known from several beaks found as the stomach contents of an elasmosaurid.[1][2] The validity of the genus has more recently been questioned.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kanie, Y. (1998). "New vampyromorph (Coleoidea: Cephalopoda) jaw apparatuses from the Late Cretaceous of Japan". Bulletin of Gunma Museum of Natural History 2: 23-34. http://www.gmnh.pref.gunma.jp/wp-content/uploads/bulletin02_3.pdf.
- ↑ Kanie, Y.; Hasegawa, Y.; Okazaki, Y.; Tatematsu, M. (1998). "Vampyromorph: past and present. Cretaceous vampyromorph (Coleoidea: Cephalopoda) as the diet of plesiosaur". Bulletin of Gunma Museum of Natural History 2: 11-22. http://www.gmnh.pref.gunma.jp/wp-content/uploads/bulletin02_2.pdf.
- ↑ Tanabe, K.; Trask, P.; Ross, R.; Hikida, Y. (2008). "Late Cretaceous octobrachiate coleoid lower jaws from the north Pacific regions". Journal of Paleontology 82 (2): 398-408. doi:10.1666/07-029.1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248399237_Late_Cretaceous_octobrachiate_coleoid_lower_jaws_from_the_North_Pacific_Regions.
Wikidata ☰ Q21361368 entry
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