Phragmoteuthis Temporal range: Late Triassic – Early Jurassic |
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Phragmoteuthis conocauda | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | †Phragmoteuthida |
Family: | †Phragmoteuthidae |
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†Phragmoteuthis Mojsisovics, 1882 |
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Phragmoteuthis is a genus of coleoid cephalopod known from the late Triassic to the lower Jurassic. Its soft tissue has been preserved; some specimens contain intact ink sacs, and others, gills. It had an internal phragmocone and ten arms.