Muensterella
| Muensterella Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Family: | †Muensterellidae |
| Genus: | †Muensterella Münster, 1842 |
| Type species | |
| Muensterella scutellaris Münster, 1842
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Muensterella is a fossil "teuthid" (squid) interpreted as a stem-lineage vampyromorph, known from a handful of specimens from German Solnhofen plattenkalk.[1]
References
- ^ Coleoid cephalopods through time (Warnke K., Keupp H., Boletzky S. v., eds) Berliner Paläobiol. Abh. 03 101-111 Berlin 2003 NEW RECORDS OF SOFT PARTS OF MUENSTERELLA SCUTELLARIS MUENSTER, 1842 (COLEOIDEA) FROM THE LATE JURASSIC PLATTENKALKS OF EICHSTÄTT AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR OCTOBRACHIAN RELATIONSHIPS D. Fuchs*, H. Keupp & Th. Engeser
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