Muensterella

Muensterella
Temporal range: Kimmeridgian-Turonian
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Fossil and reconstruction
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: Muensterellidae
Genus: Muensterella
Schevill, 1950
Type species
Muensterella scutellaris
Münster, 1842
Species
  • Muensterella scutellaris Münster, 1842
  • Muensterella spinosa Fuchs et al., 2019
  • Muensterella jillae Fuchs et al., 2019

Muensterella is a fossil stem-octopod known from a handful of specimens from the Late Jurassic lithographic limestones of southern Germany and the upper Cretaceous of Germany and Texas. Another indeterminate specimen of the Genus is known from the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Nordenskjöld Formation of Antarctica.