Muensterelloidea
| Muensterelloidea Temporal range:
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| Fossil of Muensterella scutellaris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Suborder: | †Teudopseina |
| Superfamily: | †Muensterelloidea Roger, 1952 |
| Type species | |
| †Muensterella scutellaris (Münster, 1842) Schevill, 1950
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Muensterelloidea is a superfamily (or clade) of stem-octopod cephalopods from the Early Jurassic to Late Cretaceous. Two families are currently identified, Muensterellidae, and Patelloctopodidae. The clade is the ancestral group from which modern octopus arose.