Provampyroteuthis Explained

Provampyroteuthis is an extinct genus of vampire squids from the Late Cretaceous of Japan. It contains one species, P. giganteus. It is known from several beaks found as the stomach contents of an elasmosaurid.^[1] The validity of the genus has more recently been questioned.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Kanie . Y. . Hasegawa . Y. . Okazaki . Y. . Tatematsu . M. . 1998 . Vampyromorph: past and present. Cretaceous vampyromorph (Coleoidea: Cephalopoda) as the diet of plesiosaur . Bulletin of Gunma Museum of Natural History . 2 . 11–22 .
2. Tanabe . K. . Trask . P. . Ross . R. . Hikida . Y. . 2008 . Late Cretaceous octobrachiate coleoid lower jaws from the north Pacific regions . Journal of Paleontology . 82 . 2 . 398–408 . 10.1666/07-029.1. 2008JPal...82..398T .