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Shimanskya

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Superorder
  
Decapodiformes

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Coleoidea

Order
  
Spirulida?

Similar
  
Pohlsepia, Styletoctopus, Plectronoceras, Phragmoteuthis, Plectronocerida

Shimanskya is a late Carboniferous fossil tentatively interpreted as an early spirulid. However it lacks any clearly diagnostic characters and its affinity is best considered to lie in an unresolved stem group.

References

Shimanskya Wikipedia