“…Hibolithes was a cosmopolitan and ecologically wide-ranged genus whose species are mostly differentiated based on the ventral groove characters (Stevens, 1965;Mutterlose, 1988;Doyle and Kelly, 1988; J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f 4 Challinor, 1991). Belemnopsis is a more variable genus (Stevens, 1965;Combémorel, 1988;Howlett, 1989;Challinor, 1991Challinor, , 2001Challinor, , 2003Challinor and Hikuroa, 2007) mostly represented in Gondwana by robust, cylindroconical to slightly depressed rostra with a variably strong ventral groove (Challinor, 1991;Doyle et al, 1996Doyle et al, , 1997Doyle and Pirrie, 1999). In Argentina, both Hibolithes and Belemnopsis had been long recognized from the Upper Jurassic and, mostly, from the Lower Cretaceous of the Austral Basin in south Patagonia (e.g., Dana, 1848;Favre, 1908;Feruglio, 1936Feruglio, , 1949 and have been revised or cited in the literature from there on (e.g., Aguirre-Urreta and Suárez, 1985;Riccardi, 1976Riccardi, , 1977Riccardi, , 1988.…”