†superorder Palaeoteuthomorpha Bandel et al. 1983 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Coleoidea

Full reference: K. Bandel, J. Reitner, and W. Sturmer. 1983. Coleoids frorn the Lower Devonian black slate ("Hunsrück-Schiefer") of the Hunsrück (West Gerrnany). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abhandlungen 165(3):397-417

Parent taxon: Coleoidea according to K. Bandel et al. 1983

Sister taxa: Aulacocerida, Belemnoida, Belemnoidea, Belemnomorpha, Decabrachia, Decembrachiata, Diplobelida, Glochinomorpha, Jeletzkya, Loligosepiida, Neocoleoidea, Onychoteuthis, Phragmoteuthidida, Pohlsepia, Teuthidea, Ticinoteuthis, Decacera

Subtaxa: Boletzkyida

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kaisergrube mine near Gemünden (Devonian of Germany)

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