Eromangateuthis is an extinct genus of large plesioteuthidid cephalopod from the Cretaceous of Australia and possibly Canada.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Family: | †Plesioteuthididae |
| Genus: | †Eromangateuthis Fuchs, 2019[2] |
| Species: | †E. soniae
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| †Eromangateuthis soniae (Wade, 1993)[1]
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Description
editEromangateuthis soniae is known from several gladii found in the Allaru Formation of Queensland[2][1] and a potential gladius from the Northumberland Formation of British Columbia.[3] It was originally described in 1993 as Boreopeltis soniae,[1] but was moved to its own genus in 2019 based on multiple differences between it and the type species of Boreopeltis.[2] The generic name is derived from the Eromanga Basin in which it was discovered and the Ancient Greek teuthís (τευθίς, 'squid').[2] One gladius suggests it had a mantle length of 1.2 meters.[2] This makes Eromangateuthis the largest known plesioteuthidid, with a mantle length over twice as long as the second largest, Boreopeltis ifrimae.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c Wade, M. (1993). "New Kelaenida and Vampyromorpha: Cretaceous squid from Queensland". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 15: 353–374.
- ^ a b c d e Fuchs, D. (2019). "Eromangateuthis n. gen., a new genus for a late Albian gladius-bearing giant octobrachian (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea)". Paleontological Contributions. 21: 1–3. doi:10.17161/1808.29619.
- ^ Fuchs, D.; Beard, G.; Tanabe, K.; Ross, R. (2007). "Coleoid cephalopods from the Late Cretaceous north eastern Pacific". Seventh International Symposium 'Cephalopods - Present & Past'. Abstracts Volume (PDF). Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido University. p. 131.
- ^ Fuchs, D.; Stinnesbeck, W. (2021). "Large-sized gladius-bearing octobrachians (coleoid cephalopods) in the Turonian plattenkalk of Vallecillo, Mexico". Cretaceous Research. 127: 104949. Bibcode:2021CrRes.12704949F. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104949.