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I.—On an example of Acanthoteuthis speciosa, Münster, from the Lithographic Stone, Eichstädt, Bavaria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. C. Crick
G. C. Crick
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British Museum (Natural History)
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The genus Acanthoteuthis was founded by E. Wagner1 and G. Münster upon small booklets, sometimes isolated, sometimes associated with more or less complete remains of the animal, which are found in the Lithographic Stone of Bavaria. Münster characterized three species chiefly upon the form of these hooklets, viz, A. speciosa, A. Férussacii, and A. Lichtensteinii, and noticed the existence of a fourth. Subsequently Munster referred to this genus also a number of forms based principally upon the shape of the body and upon the form of the internal shell, but most of these were afterwards separated by A. Wagner as a new genus (Plesioleuthis). The genus Acanthoteuthis is therefore restricted to such forms as Münster described chiefly upon the form of the books.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 1897 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1897

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page 1 note 1 Münster submitted the specimens to K. Wagner, and the letter in which the latter suggested the generic name Acanthoteuthis is published by Münster in his “ Beiträge zur Petrefacteu-kunde, ” Heft i, 1839, p. 94

page 1 note 2 “ Beiträge zur Petrefacten-kunde, ” Heft v, 1842, p. 97; and ibid., Heft vii, 1846, p. 55 et seq.

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page 3 note 2 Described in Neues Jahrbuch, 1836, p. 583.

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