Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Deshayesitidae
Parent taxon: Deshayesitinae according to S. R. A. Kelly and A. G. Whitham 1999
See also Förster and Weier 1983, Renz 1982, Sepkoski 2002 and Stoyanow 1949
Sister taxa: Dufrenoyia, Prodeshayesites
Subtaxa: Deshayesites (Kuntziella) Deshayesites boegvadi Deshayesites butleri Deshayesites columbianus Deshayesites deshayesi Deshayesites grandis Deshayesites multicostatus Deshayesites nodosus Deshayesites rotundatus Deshayesites temerarius
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Azerbaijan (2 collections), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Colombia (1), Egypt (1), France (18), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Greenland (3), India (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (12), Tanzania (1), Turkmenistan (7), the United Kingdom (26), United States (1: Arizona), Venezuela (1)
Total: 84 collections including 133 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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