Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Parent taxon: Belemnopseidae according to P. Doyle and S. R. A. Kelly 1988
See also Mutterlose 1986 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Neohibolites
Subtaxa: Belemnopsis aucklandica Belemnopsis berryessae Belemnopsis brownei Belemnopsis cachensis Belemnopsis californicus Belemnopsis hastata Belemnopsis hochstetteri Belemnopsis mercurialis Belemnopsis napaensis Belemnopsis spiculoides Belemnopsis sulcata Belemnopsis tomsensis
Type: Belemnites sulcatus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2 collections), Argentina (4), Chile (1), New Zealand (1)
• Heterian of New Zealand (13)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (5), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (3), Egypt (3), Ethiopia (1), France (4), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Madagascar (16), Nepal (1), New Zealand (39), Papua New Guinea (3), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: California)
Total: 111 collections including 128 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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