Dorateuthis Temporal range: Late Santonian
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D. tricarinata fossil | |
Scientific classification | |
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.