Palaeoctopus

Palaeoctopus; Temporal range:
	Holotype of Palaeoctopus newboldi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Octopoda
Suborder:	Incirrata
Family:	†Palaeoctopodidae
Genus:	†Palaeoctopus; Woodward, 1896b
Type species
	†Palaeoctopus newboldi; (Woodward, 1896a)
Synonyms
	Genus synonymy Calais ; Woodward, 1896a (preoccupied by Calais Laporte, 1838); Calaita ; Strand, 1928; Parateudopsis ; Engeser & Reitner, 1986; ; Species synonymy Calais newboldi ; Woodward, 1896a; Calaita newboldi ; (Woodward, 1896a); Beloteuthis libanotica ; Naef, 1922; Parateudopsis libanotica ; (Naef, 1922); ;

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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