Eromangateuthis
Genus of Cretaceous cephalopods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eromangateuthis is an extinct genus of large plesioteuthidid cephalopod from the Cretaceous of Australia and possibly Canada.
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Family: | †Plesioteuthididae |
| Genus: | †Eromangateuthis Fuchs, 2019[1] |
| Species: | †E. soniae |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eromangateuthis soniae (Wade, 1993)[2] | |
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Description
Eromangateuthis soniae is known from several gladii found in the Allaru Formation of Queensland[1][2] and a potential gladius from the Northumberland Formation of British Columbia.[3] It was originally described in 1993 as Boreopeltis soniae,[2] but was moved to its own genus in 2019 based on multiple differences between it and the type species of Boreopeltis.[1] The generic name is derived from the Eromanga Basin in which it was discovered and the Ancient Greek teuthís (τευθίς, 'squid').[1] One gladius suggests it had a mantle length of 1.2 meters.[1] This makes Eromangateuthis the largest known plesioteuthidid, with a mantle length over twice as long as the second largest, Boreopeltis ifrimae.[4]
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