Palaeoctopus

Palaeoctopus is an extinct genus of octopuses that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It contains one valid species, P. newboldi, which has been found in Lebanon.

Palaeoctopus
Temporal range:
Holotype of Palaeoctopus newboldi
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Palaeoctopus

Woodward, 1896b
Type species
Palaeoctopus newboldi
(Woodward, 1896a)
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
Species synonymy
    • Calais newboldi
      Woodward, 1896a
    • Calaita newboldi
      (Woodward, 1896a)
    • Beloteuthis libanotica
      Naef, 1922
    • Parateudopsis libanotica
      (Naef, 1922)
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