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.
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Genus: | †Palaeoctopus Woodward, 1896b |
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†Palaeoctopus newboldi (Woodward, 1896a) | |
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