Palaeoctopus

Palaeoctopus
Temporal range: Santonian
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Holotype of Palaeoctopus newboldi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: †Palaeoctopodidae
Genus: †Palaeoctopus
Woodward, 1896b[1]
Type species
†Palaeoctopus newboldi
(Woodward, 1896a)[2]
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
Species synonymy
    • Calais newboldi
      Woodward, 1896a
    • Calaita newboldi
      (Woodward, 1896a)
    • Beloteuthis libanotica
      Naef, 1922[6]
    • Parateudopsis libanotica
      (Naef, 1922)

Palaeoctopus is an extinct genus of octopuses that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It contains one valid species, P. newboldi, which has been found in Lebanon.

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  2. ^ Woodward, H.B. (1896a). "On a fossil octopus (Calais newboldi, J. De C. Sby. MS.) from the Cretaceous of the Lebanon". The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 52 (206): 229–234. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1896.052.01-04.12. S2CID 130534331.
  3. ^ Laporte, F.L.N.C. (1838). "Études entomologiques, ou descriptions d'insectes nouveaux et observations sur la synonymie". Revue Entomologique. 4: 5–60.
  4. ^ Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. I-II" (PDF). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A. 92 (8): 30–75.
  5. ^ Engeser, T.; Reitner, J. (1986). "Coleoid remains from the Late Cretaceous of the Lebanon in the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie). 124: 1–15.
  6. ^ Naef, A. (1922). Die Fossilen Tintenfische. Jena: Gustav Fischer. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2082.