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Family: | †Muensterellidae
Roger, 1952 |
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†Enchoteuthinae |
Muensterellidae is a family of stem-octopod cephalopods from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous.
Muensterellidae is one of two families in the superfamily Muensterelloidea along with the Patelloctopodidae. The muensterelloids are characterized by having a roughly spoon-shaped end of the gladius called the patella. This type of gladius is likely ancestral to the gladius remnants of modern octopuses.[1][2]