†Uluciala rotundata Sugiura et al. 2026 (mollusk)
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Full reference: K. Sugiura, S. Ikegami, Y. Takeda, J. Mutterlose, M. O. Derin, A. Kubota, H. Nishida, K. Tainaka, T. Harada, N. H. Landman, and Y. Iba. 2026. The oldest sepioid cephalopod from the Cretaceous discovered by Digital fossil-mining with zero-shot learning AI. Communications Biology 9(1)
Belongs to Uluciala according to K. Sugiura et al. 2026
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: None. Its type locality is AMNH loc. 3274, Elk Creek, which is in a Campanian offshore shale in the Pierre Formation of South Dakota.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: South Dakota collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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