Muensterella

Muensterella; Temporal range: Kimmeridgian-Turonian; ~
	Fossil and reconstruction
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Octopoda
Family:	†Muensterellidae
Genus:	†Muensterella; Schevill, 1950
Type species
	Muensterella scutellaris; Münster, 1842
Species
	Muensterella scutellaris Münster, 1842; Muensterella spinosa Fuchs et al., 2019; Muensterella jillae Fuchs et al., 2019;

Muensterella is a fossil stem-octopod known from a handful of specimens from the Late Jurassic lithographic limestones of southern Germany and the upper Cretaceous of Germany and Texas. Another indeterminate specimen of the Genus is known from the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Nordenskjöld Formation of Antarctica.^[1]^[2]

^ Fuchs, Dirk; Iba, Yasuhiro; Heyng, Alexander; Iijima, Masaya; Klug, Christian; Larson, Neal L.; Schweigert, Günter (February 2020). Brayard, Arnaud (ed.). "The Muensterelloidea: phylogeny and character evolution of Mesozoic stem octopods". Papers in Palaeontology. 6 (1): 31–92. doi:10.1002/spp2.1254. ISSN 2056-2799.
^ Coleoid cephalopods through time (Warnke K., Keupp H., Boletzky S. v., eds) Berliner Paläobiol. Abh. 03 101-111 Berlin 2003 New Records of Soft Parts of Muensterella scutelaris Muenter, 1842 (Coleoidea) From the Late Jurassic Plattenkalks of Eichstätt and Their Significance for Octobrachian Relationships. D. Fuchs*, H. Keupp & Th. Engeser