Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Full reference: J.-B. Lamarck. 1799. Prodrome d’une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères génériques, et l’établissement d’un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1:63-91
Parent taxon: Belemnitinae according to J. A. Jeletzky 1966
See also Meek 1864, Sepkoski 2002 and Stanton 1895
Sister taxon: Nannobelus
Subtaxa: Belemnites (Belemnopsis) Belemnites cenomanus Belemnites pacificus Belemnites paxillosa Belemnites puzosi
Type: Belemnites paxillosa
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1 collection), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Mexico (2), the Russian Federation (10), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (6), Switzerland (3), United States (5: Alaska, California, New Jersey)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of United States (1: Alaska)
• Jurassic of Austria (1), Chile (7), Ethiopia (2), Greenland (6), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia (1), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (6), the United Kingdom (1), United States (19: Alaska, California)
• Paleozoic of United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 77 collections including 78 occurrences
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