Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Parent taxon: Desmoceratoidea according to J. L. Latil et al. 2023
See also Ahmad et al. 2015, Arkadiev et al. 2000, Benzaggagh et al. 2017, Cooper 1978, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Gale et al. 2005, Henderson 1970, Henderson 1990, Kennedy 1984, Kennedy 1993, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy 1999, Kennedy 2000, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy 2018, Kennedy and Christennsen 1993, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy and Gale 2015, Kennedy et al. 1992, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Jolkicev 2004, Kennedy and Klinger 2011, Kennedy and Klinger 2012, Kennedy and Klinger 2013, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Kennedy and Morris 2018, Kennedy and Summesberger 1999, Kennedy et al. 1979, Klinger 1985, Landra et al. 2000, Lehmann et al. 2016, Lehmann et al. 2013, Matsumoto 1984, Matsumoto and Skwarko 1993, Nagy 1970, Reboulet 1996, Robert et al. 2018, Sealey and Lucas 2017, Sharifi et al. 2016, Shigeta 2016, Shigeta and Izukura 2018, Stoyanow 1949, Summesberger 1979, Summesberger 1980, Summesberger 1992, Szives 2007, Vasicek 2002, Ward and Kennedy 1993, Wild and Stilwell 2016, Wright 1952 and Wright and Kennedy 1984
Sister taxa: Beudanticeratidae, Kossmaticeratidae, Muniericeratidae, Pachydiscidae, Puzosiidae, Silesitidae
Subtaxa: Barremitinae Bassites Caseyella Desmoceratinae Eodesmoceratinae Hauericeratinae Pseudosaynellinae Puzosiinae Silesitoidinae Uhligellinae Wollemanniceras
Type: Desmoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Motuan of New Zealand (2 collections)
• Cretaceous of Angola (32), Antarctica (57), Argentina (16), Armenia (1), Australia (23), Austria (14), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (3), Brazil (27), Bulgaria (2), Cameroon (6), Canada (72: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Chile (5), China (1), Colombia (24), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (3), Denmark (1), Egypt (15), France (151), Georgia (2), Germany (18), Greenland (5), Haiti (2), Hungary (14), India (18), Indian Ocean (1), Iran (4), Iraq (3), Italy (23), Japan (91), Jordan (2), Madagascar (35), Mexico (63), Morocco (50), Mozambique (4), New Zealand (3), Nigeria (11), North Atlantic (1), Oman (1), Papua New Guinea (6), Peru (9), Poland (2), Puerto Rico (2), Romania (9), the Russian Federation (32), Serbia and Montenegro (26), Slovakia (6), South Africa (29), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1), Spain (166), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Sweden (1), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (2), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Tunisia (24), Turkmenistan (3), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (23), United States (259: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Wyoming), Venezuela (15)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Spain (1)
Total: 1439 collections including 2026 occurrences