Pohlsepia
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| Pohlsepia mazonensis Temporal range: Pennsylvanian |
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| Photograph and drawing of holotype. Click on image for details. |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Coleoidea |
| Superorder: | Octopodiformes |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Suborder: | (basal) |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Pohlsepia Kluessendorf & Doyle, 2000 |
| Species: | P. mazonensis |
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| Pohlsepia mazonensis Kluessendorf & Doyle, 2000 |
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Pohlsepia mazonensis is the earliest described octopod, dated at approximately 296[verification needed] million years old. The species is known from a single exceptionally preserved fossil discovered in the Pennyslvanian Francis Creek Shale of the Carbondale Formation, NE Illinois, USA.[1]
Pohlsepia mazonensis is named after its discoverer, James Pohl, and the type locality, Mazon Creek. Its habitat was the shallows seawards of a major river delta in what at that time was an inland ocean between the Midwest and the Appalachians.[1]
The type specimen is deposited at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.[1]
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- ^ a b c Kluessendorf, J. & P. Doyle 2000. Pohlsepia mazonensis, an early 'octopus' from the Carboniferous of Illinois, USA. Palaeontology 43(5): 919-926. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00155 PDF fulltext
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