Pohlsepia
| Pohlsepia mazonensis |
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| Photograph and drawing of holotype. Click on image for details. |
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Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Superorder: | Octopodiformes |
| Stem group: | Octopoda |
| Genus: | †Pohlsepia |
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† P. mazonensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Pohlsepia mazonensis Kluessendorf & Doyle, 2000
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Pohlsepia mazonensis is the earliest described octopod, dated at approximately 296[verification needed] million years old. The species is known from a single exceptionally preserved fossil discovered in the Pennsylvanian Francis Creek Shale of the Carbondale Formation, north-east Illinois, USA.[1]
Pohlsepia mazonensis is named after its discoverer, James Pohl, and the type locality, Mazon Creek. Its habitat was the shallows seawards of a major river delta in what at that time was an inland ocean between the Midwest and the Appalachians.[1]
The type specimen is reposited at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.[1]
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