Nanaimoteuthis jeletzkyi Tanabe 2008 (vampire squids)

Cephalopoda - Vampyromorpha

Full reference: K. Tanabe. 2008. Taxonomic names, in Late Cretaceous octobrachiate coleoid lower jaws from the north Pacific regions. Journal of Paleontology 82:398-408

Belongs to Nanaimoteuthis according to K. Tanabe 2008

Sister taxon: Nanaimoteuthis yokotai

Type specimen: CDM2006.1.1, an other (lower jaw). Its type locality is West side of Inland Highway (locality 2), which is in a Campanian marine siliciclastic in the Pender Formation of Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at West side of Inland Highway (locality 2)

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