Argonauta absyrtus

Argonauta absyrtus

Taxobox
fossil_range = Miocene
name = "Argonauta absyrtus"


image_caption =
status = fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Octopoda
familia = Argonautidae
genus = "Argonauta"
species = "A. absyrtus"
binomial = "Argonauta absyrtus"
binomial_authority = Martill & Barker, 2006

"Argonauta absyrtus" is an extinct species of octopus assigned to the genus "Argonauta".

"A. absyrtus" was described in 2006 based on fossil material from the Serravallian (Middle Miocene) Pakhna Formation of southern Cyprus. It represents the first argonaut fossil reported from the eastern Mediterranean. [Martill, D.M. & M.J. Barker (2006). [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00578.x?journalCode=pala A paper nautilus (Octopoda, "Argonauta") from the Miocene Pakhna Formation of Cyprus.] "Palaeontology" 49 (5): 1035-1041.]

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