Proteroctopus
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proteroctopus-198-6887213
title:
Proteroctopus
text:
Proteroctopus is an extinct genus of cephalopod that lived in the Middle Jurassic, approximately 164 million years ago. It is only known from a single species P. ribeti. The single fossil specimen assigned to this species originates from the Lower Callovian of Voulte-sur-Rhône in France. It is currently on display at the Musée de Paléontologie de La Voulte-sur-Rhône. While originally interpreted as an early octopus, a 2016 restudy of the specimen considered it to be a basal member of the Vampyro
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Genus of octopuses
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteroctopus
date created:
date modified:
2023-09-27T04:24:57Z
main entity:
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image:
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13
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