''Palmula'' is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

genus of foraminifera which is known from a number of species found in rocks dating from near the beginning of the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous, in Africa, Asia, Europe, and New Zealand.The Paleobiology Database: ''Palmula''
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polycotylid Polycotylidae is a family of plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous, a sister group to Leptocleididae. Polycotylids first appeared during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous, before becoming abundant and widespread during the early Late Cretaceous. ...

plesiosaur The Plesiosauria (; Greek: πλησίος, ''plesios'', meaning "near to" and ''sauros'', meaning "lizard") or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia. Plesiosaurs first appeared ...

was named ''Palmula'' in 2007,Albright, L. B. III, D. D. Gillette, and A. L. Titus. 2007. Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah: Part 2, Polycotylidae. ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology'' 27(1):41-58. but because the name was already in use, the plesiosaur was renamed, becoming ''

Palmulasaurus ''Palmulasaurus'' is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Turonian Tropic Shale of Utah. It was originally described as ''Palmula'', but the name was occupied by a genus of Cretaceous foraminifer first described in 1833. See also * List ...

''.Albright, L. B. III, D. D. Gillette, and A. L. Titus. 2007. Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, Part 2: Polycotylidae: replacement names for the preoccupied genus ''Palmula'' and the subfamily Palmulainae. ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology'' 27(4):1051.

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Foraminifera genera Jurassic life Cretaceous life Prehistoric life of Africa Prehistoric life of Asia Jurassic genus first appearances Cretaceous extinctions {{Cretaceous-life-stub