Pohlsepia
Pohlsepia mazonensis Temporal range: Pennsylvanian | |
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Photograph and drawing of holotype. Click on image for details. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Superorder: | Octopodiformes |
Stem group: | Octopoda |
Genus: | †Pohlsepia |
Species: | † P. mazonensis |
Binomial name | |
Pohlsepia mazonensis Kluessendorf & Doyle, 2000 | |
Pohlsepia mazonensis is the earliest described octopod, dated at approximately 296 million years old. The species is known from a single exceptionally preserved fossil discovered in the Pennsylvanian Francis Creek Shale of the Carbondale Formation, north-east Illinois, USA.[1]
Pohlsepia mazonensis is named after its discoverer, James Pohl, and the type locality, Mazon Creek. Its habitat was the shallows seawards of a major river delta in what at that time was an inland ocean between the Midwest and the Appalachians.[1]
The type specimen is reposited at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.[1]
See also
- Jeletzkya douglassae
- Proteroctopus ribeti
- Palaeoctopus newboldi
- Vampyronassa rhodanica
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kluessendorf, Joanne; Doyle, Peter. "Pohlsepia mazonensis, An Early ‘Octopus’ From The Carboniferous Of Illinois, USA". Palaeontology 43 (5): 919–926. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00155.
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