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Eromangateuthis

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Genus of Cretaceous cephalopods

Eromangateuthis
Temporal range: Albian (possible Campanian record) PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Family: †Plesioteuthididae
Genus: †Eromangateuthis
Fuchs, 2019
Species: †E. soniae
Binomial name
†Eromangateuthis soniae
(Wade, 1993)
Synonyms

Eromangateuthis is an extinct genus of large plesioteuthidid cephalopod from the Cretaceous of Australia and possibly Canada.

Description

Eromangateuthis soniae is known from several gladii found in the Allaru Formation of Queensland and a potential gladius from the Northumberland Formation of British Columbia. It was originally described in 1993 as Boreopeltis soniae, but was moved to its own genus in 2019 based on multiple differences between it and the type species of Boreopeltis. The generic name is derived from the Eromanga Basin in which it was discovered and the Ancient Greek teuthís (τευθίς, 'squid'). One gladius suggests it had a mantle length of 1.2 meters. This makes Eromangateuthis the largest known plesioteuthidid, with a mantle length over twice as long as the second largest, Boreopeltis ifrimae.

References

  1. ^ Wade, M. (1993). "New Kelaenida and Vampyromorpha: Cretaceous squid from Queensland". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 15: 353–374.
  2. ^ Fuchs, D. (2019). "Eromangateuthis n. gen., a new genus for a late Albian gladius-bearing giant octobrachian (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea)". Paleontological Contributions. 21: 1–3. doi:10.17161/1808.29619. hdl:1808/29619.
  3. Fuchs, D.; Beard, G.; Tanabe, K.; Ross, R. (2007). "Coleoid cephalopods from the Late Cretaceous north eastern Pacific". Seventh International Symposium 'Cephalopods - Present & Past'. Abstracts Volume (PDF). Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido University. p. 131.
  4. Fuchs, D.; Stinnesbeck, W. (2021). "Large-sized gladius-bearing octobrachians (coleoid cephalopods) in the Turonian plattenkalk of Vallecillo, Mexico". Cretaceous Research. 127: 104949. Bibcode:2021CrRes.12704949F. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104949.
Taxon identifiers
Eromangateuthis
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