Muensterella Explained

Muensterella is a fossil stem-octopod known from a handful of specimens from the Late Jurassic lithographic limestones of southern Germany and the upper Cretaceous of Germany and Texas. Another indeterminate specimen of the Genus is known from the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Nordenskjöld Formation of Antarctica.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. Fuchs . Dirk . Iba . Yasuhiro . Heyng . Alexander . Iijima . Masaya . Klug . Christian . Larson . Neal L. . Schweigert . Günter . February 2020 . Brayard . Arnaud . The Muensterelloidea: phylogeny and character evolution of Mesozoic stem octopods . Papers in Palaeontology . en . 6 . 1 . 31–92 . 10.1002/spp2.1254 . 2056-2799.
  2. Coleoid cephalopods through time (Warnke K., Keupp H., Boletzky S. v., eds) Berliner Paläobiol. Abh. 03 101-111 Berlin 2003 New Records of Soft Parts of Muensterella scutelaris Muenter, 1842 (Coleoidea) From the Late Jurassic Plattenkalks of Eichstätt and Their Significance for Octobrachian Relationships. D. Fuchs*, H. Keupp & Th. Engeser

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Muensterella".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.