Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Parent taxon: Belemnitinae according to J. A. Jeletzky 1966
See also Meek 1864, Sepkoski 2002 and Stanton 1895
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Belemnites (Belemnopsis) Belemnites (Hibolites) Belemnites canaliculatus Belemnites cenomanus Belemnites dicoelus Belemnites duvalianus Belemnites gerardi Belemnites pacificus Belemnites paxillosus Belemnites subfusiformis Belemnites subquadratus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1 collection), Australia (2), Austria (1), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic (3), France (11), Germany (6), Hungary (5), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (2), Mozambique (2), the Russian Federation (10), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (6), Switzerland (9), United States (5: Alaska, California, New Jersey)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of United States (1: Alaska)
• Jurassic of Algeria (2), Antarctica (2), Austria (1), Chile (7), Ethiopia (4), France (5), Germany (1), Greenland (6), India (1), Indonesia (2), Iran (2), Italy (1), Kenya (5), Madagascar (8), Mexico (1), Poland (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Somalia (5), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (6), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (20: Alaska, California)
• Paleozoic of United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 162 collections including 194 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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