Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
Parent taxon: Pachybelemnopseina according to N. M. M. Janssen 2010
See also Fözy and Janssen 2009
Sister taxon: Duvaliidae
Subtaxa: Conohibolites Curtohibolites Hibolithes Mesohibolites Pachybelemnopsis Vaunagites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (8), Greenland (23), Hungary (17), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (3)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), the Czech Republic (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (5), France (3), Germany (4), Iran (2), Italy (1), Madagascar (13), New Zealand (11), Poland (2), Romania (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 103 collections including 184 occurrences