Full reference: A. d'Orbigny. 1850. Prodrome du paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphique 1:1-392
Parent taxon: Cephalopoda according to C. Teichert et al. 1964
Sister taxa: Actinoceratoidea, Akidocheilus, Anomalosaepiidae, Avramidiscus, Barrandeocerida, Belosaepia, Burronoceras, Coleoidea, Dartoceras, Davidiceras, Desmoceras, Didymoceras, Ectocochlia, Ellesmerocerida, Endoceratoidea, Endocycloceratidae, Erlangericheilus, Gonatocheilus, Hadrocheilus, Irianoceras, Lamellaptychus, Leptocheilus, Mesoteuthoidea, Multiceratoidea, Nautilia, Nautiloidea, Nautilus (Solenochilus), Ohioceratidae, Orthoceratoidea, Orthoceratoidea, Plectronoceratia, Plectronocerida, Rhyncholithes, Rhynchoteuthis, Robsonoceratidae, Scaptorrhynchus, Sichunoceras, Stemtonoceratidae, Tarphyceratia, Teratoceroides, Tetrabranchiata, Tillicheilus, Toxancyloceras, Werthenoceras, Yanhecerida
Subtaxa: Palaeoteuthis honoratianus Palaeoteuthis infira
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Locality 1, Serre de Bleyton (Cretaceous of France)
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