Paleocirroteuthis
| Paleocirroteuthis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Suborder: | Cirrina |
| Genus: | †Paleocirroteuthis Tanabe et al., 2008 |
| Type species | |
| †Paleocirroteuthis haggarti Tanabe et al., 2008
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| Other species | |
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†Paleocirroteuthis pacifica Tanabe et al., 2008 | |
Paleocirroteuthis is an extinct genus of octopuses that lived in the Santonian and Campanian ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch. It is known from fossilized jaws discovered in Japan and Canada.
It contains two species, P. haggarti (the type species), and P. pacifica. Both species, along with the genus, were described by Kazushige Tanabe in 2008.