Styloteuthis Fritsch 1910 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Octobrachia - Plesioteuthidae

Full reference: A. Fritsch. 1910. Miscellanea Palaeontologica. II. Mesozoica 1-25

Parent taxon: Plesioteuthididae according to M. Košťák 2002

See also Jeletzky 1966 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Boreopeltis, Dorateuthis, Eromangateuthis, Maioteuthis, Paraplesioteuthis, Plesioteuthis

Subtaxa: Styloteuthis convexa

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Type: Styloteuthis convexa

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Vinar bei Hohenmauth (Cretaceous of Czech Republic)

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