Argonauta oweri
Argonauta oweri is an extinct species of argonautid octopus. It is known from the early Pliocene of New Zealand. The type specimen, a fossilised eggcase, measures 118 mm in diameter. Its aperture is 95 mm high and 40 mm across at its widest point (though it is slightly crushed). It was collected by John R. Ower of Superior Oil Company (after whom it is named) in a "limy concretionary boulder" in Hautapu River, due west of Flat Spur and 1.4 miles (2.3 km) southeast of Utiku, New Zealand.
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Argonauta oweri
Argonauta oweri is an extinct species of argonautid octopus. It is known from the early Pliocene of New Zealand. The type specimen, a fossilised eggcase, measures 118 mm in diameter. Its aperture is 95 mm high and 40 mm across at its widest point (though it is slightly crushed). It was collected by John R. Ower of Superior Oil Company (after whom it is named) in a "limy concretionary boulder" in Hautapu River, due west of Flat Spur and 1.4 miles (2.3 km) southeast of Utiku, New Zealand.
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Argonauta oweri is an extinct ...... almost certainly Waitotaran".
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Argonauta oweri is an extinct ...... utheast of Utiku, New Zealand.
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