Biology:Muensterella

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Short description: Extinct genus of molluscs


Muensterella
Temporal range: Tithonian
Muensterella scutellaris.JPG
Fossil and reconstruction
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: Muensterellidae
Genus: Muensterella
Schevill, 1950
Type species
Muensterella scutellaris
Münster, 1842

Muensterella is a fossil stem-octopod known from a handful of specimens from German Solnhofen plattenkalk.[1]

References

  1. Coleoid cephalopods through time (Warnke K., Keupp H., Boletzky S. v., eds) Berliner Paläobiol. Abh. 03 101-111 Berlin 2003 NEW RECORDS OF SOFT PARTS OF MUENSTERELLA SCUTELLARIS MUENSTER, 1842 (COLEOIDEA) FROM THE LATE JURASSIC PLATTENKALKS OF EICHSTÄTT AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR OCTOBRACHIAN RELATIONSHIPS D. Fuchs*, H. Keupp & Th. Engeser

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