Biology:Boreopeltis
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Short description: Genus of squid
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Family: | †Plesioteuthididae |
| Genus: | †Boreopeltis Engeser & Reitner, 1985 |
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Boreopeltis is an extinct genus of plesioteuthidid cephalopod, with 4 known species.[1][2]
Species
- 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "WMSD - Worldwide mollusc species DB - Boreopeltis smithi". http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmSpecies/8046000010.htm.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Plesioteuthididae". http://tolweb.org/Plesioteuthididae/140239.
- ↑ 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230844745.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019566712100197X.
Wikidata ☰ Q65081753 entry
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