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Article: A new Palaeoctopus (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea) from the Late Cretaceous of Vallecillo, north-eastern Mexico, and implications for the evolution of Octopoda

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 51
Part: 5
Publication Date: September 2008
Page(s): 1129 – 1139
Author(s): Dirk Fuchs, Christina Ifrim and Wolfgang Stinnesbeck
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FUCHS, D., IFRIM, C., STINNESBECK, W. 2008. A new Palaeoctopus (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea) from the Late Cretaceous of Vallecillo, north-eastern Mexico, and implications for the evolution of Octopoda. Palaeontology, 51, 5, 1129–1139.

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