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Pachyteuthis Temporal range: Early Jurassic–Early Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil of P. densus from the Swift Formation
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
(unranked):	†Belemnoidea
Genus:	†Pachyteuthis Bayle, 1878
Binomial name
†Pachyteuthis densus (Meek & Hayden, 1858)

Pachyteuthis is a genus of belemnite that lived from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, and has been found in Asia, Europe and North America. The type species is P. densus.

Sources

1. Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 162)
2. Pachyteuthis in the Paleobiology Database

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