Aulacoteuthis is a genus of belemnite, an extinct group of cephalopods.[1]

Aulacoteuthis
Temporal range: 130–125.45 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Superorder: Belemnoidea
Genus: Aulacoteuthis
Stolley, 1911
Type species
Aulacoteuthis ernsti
Mutterlose & Baraboshkin, 2003
Other species
  • Aulacoteuthis compressa Mutterlose, 1983
  • Aulacoteuthis descendens Stolley, 1925
  • Aulacoteuthis speetonensis (Pavlow, 1892)
  • ?Aulacoteuthis absolutiformis (Sinzow, 1877)

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References edit

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-04-10.