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Coleoid
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Paleozoic
Period: Carboniferous
Sub Period: Mississippian
Epoch: Late
International Age: Serpukhovian
Big Snowy Group
Heath Formation
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Length: 7 cm
Bear Gulch
Fergus County
Montana
United States
Taxonomy according to Mapes et al., 2010.
Identified by R. Mapes, Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, U.S.A.
References:
Mapes, R. H., Weller, E. A. & Doguzhaeva, L. A. (2010) in Cephalopods—Present and Past (eds Tanabe, K., Shigeta, Y., Sasaki, T. & Hirano, H.) 155‒170 (Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, 2010)
Klug, C., Landman, N.H., Fuchs, D. et al. (2019) Anatomy and evolution of the first Coleoidea in the Carboniferous. Commun Biol 2, 280. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0523-2
Whalen, C.D., Landman, N.H. (2022) Fossil coleoid cephalopod from the Mississippian Bear Gulch Lagerstätte sheds light on early vampyropod evolution. Nat Commun 13, 1107. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28333-5.
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