Palaeoctopus newboldi

Taxobox
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
name = "Palaeoctopus newboldi"


image_caption = "Palaeoctopus newboldi" holotype.
status = fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
subclassis = Coleoidea
superordo = Octopodiformes
ordo = Octopoda
familia = Palaeoctopodidae
familia_authority = Dollo, 1912
genus = "Palaeoctopus"
species = "P. newboldi"
binomial = "Palaeoctopus newboldi"
binomial_authority = (Woodward, 1896)
synonyms =
*"Calais newboldi"
Woodward, 1896
*"Paleoctopus newboldi"
"orth.var."

"Palaeoctopus newboldi" was a primitive octopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, approximately 89 to 71 million years ago. Fossil material assigned to this species originates from the Mount Hajoula region in Lebanon. The holotype was found below the Old Covent, Sahel-el-Alma, Mount Lebanon and is deposited at the Natural History Museum in London. [Woodward, H. 1896. On a fossil octopus ("Calais Newboldi", J. de C. Sby, MS) from the Cretaceous of the Lebanon. "Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London" 52: 229–234.] It might belong to the Cirrina or be more basal in the Octopoda.

ee also

*"Jeletzkya douglassae"
*"Pohlsepia mazonensis"
*"Proteroctopus ribeti"
*"Vampyronassa rhodanica"

References

External links

* [http://www.tonmo.com/science/fossils/fossiloctopuses.php The Octopus News Magazine Online: Fossil Octopuses]