Boreopeltis Explained

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

Species

• Boreopeltis helgolandiae (Engeser & Reitner, 1985)^[1] from the Aptian.
• Boreopeltis sagittata (Naef, 1921) from the Tithonian.
• Boreopeltis smithi (A. Fuchs & Larson, 2011)^[2] 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.

Formerly assigned species

• Eromangateuthis soniae Fuchs 2019 (previously Boreopeltis soniae Wade, 1993)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Plesioteuthididae. tolweb.org. 2019-03-11.
2. Web site: WMSD - Worldwide mollusc species DB - Boreopeltis smithi. www.bagniliggia.it. 2019-03-11.
3. Fuchs; Larson . Dirk; Neal L . March 2011 . Diversity, Morphology, and Phylogeny of Coleoid Cephalopods from the Upper Cretaceous Plattenkalks of Lebanon–Part I: Prototeuthidina . . 85 . 2 . 234–249. 10.1666/10-089.1 . 196614833 .
4. Fuchs; Stinnesbeck . Dirk; Wolfgang . November 2021 . Large-sized gladius-bearing octobrachians (coleoid cephalopods) in the Turonian plattenkalk of Vallecillo, Mexico . . 127. 104949 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104949 .