Awesome new paper by Thomas Clements and co-authors!

https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2369

Fun fact: despite the name similarity, I have nothing to do with Pohlsepia or Palaeocadmus pohli 😉

#cephalopods #coleoids #coleoid #octopus #taphonomy #Carboniferous

Synchrotron data reveal nautiloid characters in Pohlsepia mazonensis, refuting a Palaeozoic origin for octobrachians

Abstract. Pohlsepia mazonensis, from the late Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte (311–306 Ma), has been suggested to be the oldest fossil octopus. This

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