Necroteuthis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Vampyromorphida |
Family: | Vampyroteuthidae |
Genus: | †Necroteuthis Kretzoi, 1942[1] |
Species: | †N. hungarica
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Binomial name | |
†Necroteuthis hungarica Kretzoi, 1942
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Necroteuthis is an extinct genus of vampire squids from the Oligocene of Hungary. It contains one species, N. hungarica. It was initially identified as a squid,[1] but was recently reinterpreted as a vampyroteuthid.[2]