Pachyteuthis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of molluscs}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Pachyteuthis

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Early Jurassic|Early Cretaceous}}

| image = Pachyteuthis_densus_(fossil_belemnite)_(Swift_Formation,_Jurassic;_Carbon_County,_Montana,_USA)_1_(49075434606).jpg

| image_caption = Fossil of P. densus from the Swift Formation

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Cephalopoda

| unranked_ordo = Belemnoidea

| genus = {{extinct}}Pachyteuthis

| genus_authority = Bayle, 1878

| binomial = {{extinct}}Pachyteuthis densus

| binomial_authority = (Meek & Hayden, 1858)

}}

Pachyteuthis is a genus of belemnite that lived from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous,Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 162) and has been found in Asia, Europe and North America.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15881 Pachyteuthis] in the Paleobiology Database The type species is P. densus.

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