Boreopeltis

{{short description|Genus of squid}}

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Boreopeltis is an extinct genus of plesioteuthidid cephalopod, with 4 known species.

Species

  • Boreopeltis helgolandiae (Engeser & Reitner, 1985){{Cite web|url=http://tolweb.org/Plesioteuthididae/140239|title=Plesioteuthididae|website=tolweb.org|access-date=2019-03-11}} from the Aptian.
  • Boreopeltis sagittata (Naef, 1921) from the Tithonian.
  • Boreopeltis smithi (A. Fuchs & Larson, 2011){{Cite web|url=http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmSpecies/8046000010.htm|title=WMSD - Worldwide mollusc species DB - Boreopeltis smithi|website=www.bagniliggia.it|access-date=2019-03-11}} from the late Cenomanian to ?Santonian of the Sannine Formation in Lebanon.{{Cite journal |last=Fuchs; Larson |first=Dirk; Neal L |date=March 2011 |title=Diversity, Morphology, and Phylogeny of Coleoid Cephalopods from the Upper Cretaceous Plattenkalks of Lebanon–Part I: Prototeuthidina |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230844745 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=85 |issue=2 |pages=234–249|doi=10.1666/10-089.1 |s2cid=196614833 }}
  • Boreopeltis ifrimae (Fuchs, 2021){{Cite journal |last=Fuchs; Stinnesbeck |first=Dirk; Wolfgang |date=November 2021 |title=Large-sized gladius-bearing octobrachians (coleoid cephalopods) in the Turonian plattenkalk of Vallecillo, Mexico |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019566712100197X |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=127|page=104949 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104949 |url-access=subscription }} from the Turonian of Vallecillo, Mexico, has a gladius length of 47 centimeters and is the second-largest known plesioteuthidid after Eromangateuthis soniae.

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