Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Alternative spellings: Belemnopsis (Hibolites), Hibolites
Parent taxon: Belemnites according to Delattre 1952
See also Anderson 1938, Civitelli et al. 1991 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Belemnites (Belemnopsis), Belemnites canaliculatus, Belemnites cenomanus, Belemnites dicoelus, Belemnites duvalianus, Belemnites gerardi, Belemnites pacificus, Belemnites paxillosus, Belemnites subfusiformis, Belemnites subquadratus
Subtaxa: Belemnopsis (Hibolites) diventroides Hibolites arroyoensis Hibolites cigarroides Hibolites duperroni Hibolites fontoinonti Hibolites hastatus Hibolites latesulcatus Hibolites planohastatus Hibolites semihastatus Hibolites toroensis Hibolites wilburensis
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (1 collection), Azerbaijan (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (5), Germany (6), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Mozambique (2), South Africa (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (2), Antarctica (1), France (4), Germany (1), Iran (2), Kenya (1), Madagascar (4), Poland (1), Romania (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 41 collections including 53 occurrences