Acanthoteuthis
| Acanthoteuthis Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil specimen, National Museum of Natural History | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | †Belemnitida |
| Family: | †Belemnotheutidae |
| Genus: | †Acanthoteuthis Wagner in Münster, 1839 |
Acanthoteuthis is a belemnite genus, a squid-like cephalopod with an internal shell from the Late Jurassic Epoch, related to modern coleoids.
Acanthoteuthis belongs to the belemnoid family Belemnotheutidae in which the pointed rostrum at the back of the phragmocone is lacking.