Boreopeltis

Boreopeltis is an extinct genus of plesioteuthidid cephalopod, with 4 known species.^[1][2]

Boreopeltis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Family:	†Plesioteuthididae
Genus:	†Boreopeltis Engeser & Reitner, 1985
Species
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Species

• Boreopeltis helgolandiae (Engeser & Reitner, 1985)^[2] from the Aptian.

• Boreopeltis sagittata (Naef, 1921)^[2] from the Tithonian.
• Boreopeltis smithi (A. Fuchs & Larson, 2011)^[1] 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.^[4]

Formerly assigned species

• Eromangateuthis soniae Fuchs 2019 (previously Boreopeltis soniae Wade, 1993^[2])