Order Spirulida Stolley 1919 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Spirulida

Parent taxon: Decabrachia according to R. Hoffmann et al. 2022

See also Doyle et al. 1994 and Fuchs et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Belemnitida, Diplobelida, Longibelus, Myopsida, Oegopsida, Sepiida, Sepiolida, Teuthida

Subtaxa: Belemnoseidae Belopteridae Groenlandibelidae Spirulidae Spirulirostridae Spirulirostrinidae Vasseuriidae

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Morocco (1)

• Miocene of Germany (2)

• Eocene of Italy (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), the Netherlands (1)

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia), Greenland (3), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 18 collections including 19 occurrences

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