Provampyroteuthis

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][2] The validity of the genus has more recently been questioned.[3]

Provampyroteuthis
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Vampyromorphida
Family: Vampyroteuthidae
Genus: †Provampyroteuthis
Kanie, 1998[1]
Species:
†P. giganteus
Binomial name
†Provampyroteuthis giganteus
Kanie, 1998

References
  1. Kanie, Y. (1998). "New vampyromorph (Coleoidea: Cephalopoda) jaw apparatuses from the Late Cretaceous of Japan" (PDF). Bulletin of Gunma Museum of Natural History. 2: 23–34.
  2. Kanie, Y.; Hasegawa, Y.; Okazaki, Y.; Tatematsu, M. (1998). "Vampyromorph: past and present. Cretaceous vampyromorph (Coleoidea: Cephalopoda) as the diet of plesiosaur" (PDF). Bulletin of Gunma Museum of Natural History. 2: 11–22.
  3. 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. doi:10.1666/07-029.1.
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