Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
Synonym: Pseudohibolites Bliithgen 1936
Parent taxon: Mesohibolitidae according to N. M. M. Janssen 2010
See also Anderson 1938, Civitelli et al. 1991, Doyle and Kelly 1988, Gardner and Campbell 1997, Mutterlose 1986, Mutterlose and Wiedenroth 2008 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Conohibolites, Curtohibolites, Mesohibolites, Pachybelemnopsis, Vaunagites
Subtaxa: Hibolithes beyrichi Hibolithes catlinensis Hibolithes hastatus Hibolithes jaculiformis Hibolithes semihastatus Hibolithes subfusiformis
Type: Belemnites hastatus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (1), France (2), Greenland (23), Hungary (17)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (5), France (2), Germany (4), Iran (2), New Zealand (11), Poland (2), Romania (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 74 collections including 118 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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