Argonauta tokunagai is an extinct species of octopus. It was described in 1913 based on fossil material from the Middle Miocene Huzina Formation of Japan.[1]
| Argonauta tokunagai Temporal range: Miocene
| |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Family: | Argonautidae |
| Genus: | Argonauta |
| Species: | †A. tokunagai
|
| Binomial name | |
| †Argonauta tokunagai Yokoyama, 1913
| |
Undescribed fossil species of Argonauta related to this taxon have been temporarily designated Argonauta cf. tokunagai and Argonauta "tokunagai".[2]
References edit
- ^ Martill, David M.; Barker, Michael J. (2006). "A Paper Nautilus (Octopoda, Argonauta) from the Miocene Pakhna Formation of Cyprus". Palaeontology. 49 (5): 1035–1041. Bibcode:2006Palgy..49.1035M. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00578.x. S2CID 128781244.
- ^ Yanagisawa, Y. 1990. "Age of fossil Argonautidae (Cephalopoda) from Hokuriku Province (central Honshu, Japan) based on diatom biostratigraphy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27. (1.90 MiB) Bull. Geol. Surv. Japan 41(3): 115-127.
- Kobayashi, T. (1956). A palaeo-meteorological interpretation to the occurrence of the Argonautinae in Province Kaga, central Japan. Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography 27(2–4): 93–104.
 | This article related to the octopus is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |