Boreopeltis
Genus of squid
| Boreopeltis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Family: | †Plesioteuthididae |
| Genus: | †Boreopeltis Engeser & Reitner, 1985 |
| Species | |
| See text | |
Boreopeltis is an extinct genus of plesioteuthidid cephalopod, with 4 known species.[1][2]
Species
- Boreopeltis helgolandiae (Engeser & Reitner, 1985)[2] from the Aptian.
- Boreopeltis sagittata (Naef, 1921)[2] from the Tithonian.
- Boreopeltis smithi (A. Fuchs & Larson, 2011)[1] from the late Cenomanian to ?Santonian of the Sannine Formation in Lebanon.[3]
- Boreopeltis ifrimae (Fuchs, 2021)[4] from the Turonian of Vallecillo, Mexico, has a gladius length of 47 centimeters and is the second-largest known plesioteuthidid after Eromangateuthis soniae.[4]
Formerly assigned species
- Eromangateuthis soniae Fuchs 2019 (previously Boreopeltis soniae Wade, 1993[2])
References
- ^ a b "WMSD - Worldwide mollusc species DB - Boreopeltis smithi". www.bagniliggia.it. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ^ a b c d "Plesioteuthididae". tolweb.org. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ^ Fuchs; Larson, Dirk; Neal L (March 2011). "Diversity, Morphology, and Phylogeny of Coleoid Cephalopods from the Upper Cretaceous Plattenkalks of Lebanon–Part I: Prototeuthidina". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (2): 234–249. doi:10.1666/10-089.1. S2CID 196614833.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Fuchs; Stinnesbeck, Dirk; Wolfgang (November 2021). "Large-sized gladius-bearing octobrachians (coleoid cephalopods) in the Turonian plattenkalk of Vallecillo, Mexico". Cretaceous Research. 127: 104949. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104949.
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