Palaeoteuthomorpha

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| fossil_range = Devonian - ?

| taxon = Palaeoteuthomorpha

| authority = Bandel, Reitner,& Sturmer, 1983

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Palaeoteuthomorpha is a superorder of primitive coleoid cephalopods, containing the Boletzkyida, characterized by an orthoceroid-like phragmocone early in ontogeny and a teuthid living chamber later in ontogeny. This contrasts with the later Teuthida which have a reduced living chamber (gladius) throughout.

References

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  • Klaus Bandel, J Reitner, and W Sturmer, 1983. Coleoids from the Lower Devonian Black Slate (Hunstruck-Shiefer) of the Hunsruck (West Germany) N Jb Geol Paliont Abh 165(3) 397-414 Stuttgart, Apr 1983.

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Category:Coleoidea

Category:Protostome superorders

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