| Muensterellidae Temporal range: Kimmeridgian–Campanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Fossil of Muensterella scutellaris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Suborder: | †Teudopseina |
| Superfamily: | †Muensterelloidea |
| Family: | †Muensterellidae Roger, 1952 |
| Subgroups | |
†Enchoteuthinae | |
Muensterellidae is a family of stem-octopod cephalopods from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous.
Phylogeny
Muensterellidae is one of two families in the superfamily Muensterelloidea along with the Patelloctopodidae. The muensterelloids are characterized by having a roughly spoon-shaped end of the gladius called the patella. This type of gladius is likely ancestral to the gladius remnants of modern octopuses.
References
- Fuchs, D.; Schweigert, G. (2018). "First Middle–Late Jurassic gladius vestiges provide new evidence on the detailed origin of incirrate and cirrate octopuses (Coleoidea)". PalZ. 92 (2): 203–217. doi:10.1007/s12542-017-0399-8. S2CID 135245479.
- Fuchs, Dirk; Iba, Yasuhiro; Heyng, Alexander; Iijima, Masaya; Klug, Christian; Larson, Neal L.; Schweigert, Günter (February 2020). Brayard, Arnaud (ed.). "The Muensterelloidea: phylogeny and character evolution of Mesozoic stem octopods". Papers in Palaeontology. 6 (1): 31–92. doi:10.1002/spp2.1254. ISSN 2056-2802. S2CID 198256507.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Muensterellidae | |