| Izumonauta Temporal range: Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Family: | Argonautidae |
| Genus: | †Izumonauta Kobayashi, 1954 |
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Izumonauta is an extinct genus of shelled octopods from the Mid to Late Miocene of Japan and New Zealand.[1]
The keels of Izumonauta eggcases lack tubercules and are intermediate in morphology between those of the earlier Obinautilus and later Argonauta.[2]
The New Zealand fossil material was described from the Kapitean Stage (uppermost Miocene).[3]
- ^ Kobayashi, T. (1954). Izumonauta, a new genus of the Argonautinae, with a note on their rare but gregarious fossil occurrence. Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography 25: 21-34.
- ^ Saul, L. & C. Stadum (2005). "Fossil Argonauts (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopodida) From Late Miocene Siltstones Of The Los Angeles Basin, California". Journal of Paleontology. 79 (3): 520–531. Bibcode:2005JPal...79..520S. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079<0520:FAMCOF>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 131373540.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Marshall, B.A. (1971). Izumonauta (Argonautidae, Cephalopoda, Coleoida) from the Kapitean Stage (Uppermost Miocene) of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 14: 288-292.