Patelloctopodidae

Patelloctopodidae is a family of stem-octopod cephalopods from the Middle and Late Jurassic of Europe. Five genera are currently placed in the family, Etchesia, Muenstellerina, Patelloctopus, Pearciteuthis and Tyrionella, Patelloctopodidae is one of two families in the superfamily Muensterelloidea along with the Muensterellidae.[1][2] They are thought to be the group from which modern octopus arose.[3]

Patelloctopodidae
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Suborder: †Teudopseina
Family: †Patelloctopodidae
Fuchs & Schweigert, 2018
Subgroups
  • †Etchesia
  • †Muenstellerina
  • †Patelloctopus
  • †Pearciteuthis
  • †Tyrionella

References
  1. Dirk Fuchs; Günter Schweigert (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.
  2. "Patelloctopodidae". The Paleobiology Database.
  3. 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.


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