{{short description|Genus of squid}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Tithonian|Turonian|latest=Santonian|Tithonian to Turonian}} Possible Santonian occurrence | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Boreopeltis | authority = Engeser & Reitner, 1985 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms = }}
'''''Boreopeltis''''' is an extinct genus of plesioteuthidid cephalopod, with 4 known species.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
== Species ==
* '''''Boreopeltis helgolandiae''''' (Engeser & Reitner, 1985)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://tolweb.org/Plesioteuthididae/140239|title=Plesioteuthididae|website=tolweb.org|access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref> from the Aptian of Helgoland, Germany.
* '''''Boreopeltis sagittata''''' (Naef, 1921)<ref name=":0" /> from the Tithonian-aged Solnhofen Formation of Germany. * '''''Boreopeltis smithi''''' (A. Fuchs & Larson, 2011)<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmSpecies/8046000010.htm|title=WMSD - Worldwide mollusc species DB - Boreopeltis smithi|website=www.bagniliggia.it|access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref> from the late Cenomanian-aged Sannine Formation in Lebanon, potentially Santonian of Sahel Alma, Lebanon.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fuchs; Larson |first=Dirk; Neal L |date=March 2011 |title=Diversity, Morphology, and Phylogeny of Coleoid Cephalopods from the Upper Cretaceous Plattenkalks of Lebanon–Part I: Prototeuthidina |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230844745 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=85 |issue=2 |pages=234–249|doi=10.1666/10-089.1 |s2cid=196614833 }}</ref> * '''''Boreopeltis ifrimae''''' (Fuchs, 2021)<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Fuchs; Stinnesbeck |first=Dirk; Wolfgang |date=November 2021 |title=Large-sized gladius-bearing octobrachians (coleoid cephalopods) in the Turonian plattenkalk of Vallecillo, Mexico |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019566712100197X |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=127|article-number=104949 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104949 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> from the Turonian-aged Agua Nueva Formation of Vallecillo, Mexico, has a gladius length of 47 centimeters and is the second-largest known plesioteuthidid after ''Eromangateuthis soniae''.<ref name=":2" />
===Formerly assigned species=== * ''Eromangateuthis soniae'' Fuchs 2019 (previously ''Boreopeltis soniae'' Wade, 1993<ref name=":0" />)
== References == {{Reflist}}
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Category:Prehistoric cephalopod genera Category:Fossil taxa described in 1985 Category:Fossils of Germany Category:Fossils of Lebanon Category:Fossils of Mexico Category:Tithonian genus first appearances Category:Aptian genera Category:Cenomanian genera Category:Turonian genera Category:Santonian genus extinctions