Shimanskya

Shimanskya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Coleoidea
Superorder: Decapodiformes
Order: Spirulida?
Family: Shimanskyidae
Doguzhaeva, Mapes & Mutvei, 1999
Genus: Shimanskya
Doguzhaeva, Mapes & Mutvei, 1999
Species
  • Shimanskya postremus
    (Miller, 1930)
Synonyms
  • Bactrites postremus
    Miller, 1930

Shimanskya is a late Carboniferous fossil tentatively interpreted as an early spirulid.[1] However it lacks any clearly diagnostic characters and its affinity is best considered to lie in an unresolved stem group.[2]

References

  1. ^ Strugnell, J.; Jackson, J.; Drummond, A. J.; Cooper, A. (2006). "Divergence time estimates for major cephalopod groups: evidence from multiple genes". Cladistics 22: 89–96. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00086.x.  edit
  2. ^ Warnke, K; Plötner, J; Santana, JI; Rueda, MJ; Llinas, O (2003). "Reflections on the phylogenetic position of Spirula (Cephalopoda): preliminary evidence from the 18S ribosomal RNA gene". Berliner Paläobiologische Abhandlungen 3: 253–260. http://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/geol/fachrichtungen/pal/eigenproduktion/Band_03/22.pdf.