Pachyteuthis

Pachyteuthis
Temporal range:
Fossil of P. densus from the Swift Formation
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
(unranked):
Belemnoidea
Genus:
†Pachyteuthis

Bayle, 1878
Binomial name
†Pachyteuthis densus
(Meek & Hayden, 1858)

Pachyteuthis is a genus of belemnite that lived from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous,[1] and has been found in Asia, Europe and North America.[2] The type species is P. densus.

Sources

  1. ^ Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 162)
  2. ^ Pachyteuthis in the Paleobiology Database


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