Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Parent taxon: Belemnopseina according to P. Doyle et al. 1994
See also Lehmann et al. 2016 and Mutterlose 1986
Sister taxa: Belemnitellidae, Dicoelitidae, Dimitobelidae, Pseudodicoelitidae
Subtaxa: Belemnopsis Hibolites Neohibolites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2 collections), Argentina (4), Austria (1), Azerbaijan (4), Cape Verde (1), Chile (1), the Czech Republic (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Egypt (1), France (11), Germany (14), Italy (3), Japan (1), Madagascar (1), Morocco (2), Mozambique (5), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (4: California, Texas)
• Heterian of New Zealand (13)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), the Czech Republic (1), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (2), Antarctica (5), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (3), Egypt (3), Ethiopia (3), France (7), Germany (1), India (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Kenya (5), Madagascar (9), Nepal (1), New Zealand (39), Papua New Guinea (3), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Somalia (5), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: California)
Total: 192 collections including 236 occurrences