Biology:Dorateuthis
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Short description: Extinct genus of molluscs
| Dorateuthis Temporal range: Late Santonian
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| D. tricarinata fossil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Family: | †Plesioteuthididae |
| Genus: | †Dorateuthis Woodward, 1883 |
| Species: | †D. syrica
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| Binomial name | |
| †Dorateuthis syrica Woodward, 1883
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Dorateuthis is a genus of cephalopod with a gladius and soft-part anatomy preserved.[1][2] Fossils of D. syriaca are found in Upper Santonian-aged shale of Late Cretaceous Lebanon.
References
- ↑ Woodward, H. (2009). "I.—On a New Genus of Fossil "Calamary," from the Cretaceous Formation of Sahel Alma, near Beirût, Lebanon, Syria". Geological Magazine 10: 1. doi:10.1017/S0016756800159667.
- ↑ Alexander Lukeneder; Mathias Harzhauser (2004). "The Cretaceous coleoid Dorateuthis syriaca WOODWARD: morphology, feeding habits and phylogenetic implications". Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 106. http://193.170.196.75/Content.Node/forschung/geologie/mitarbeiter/pdfs/Lukeneder_%20Harzhauser_2004_ANHM.pdf. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q5297536 entry
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