Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Deshayesitidae
Parent taxon: Deshayesitaceae according to O. Szives 2007
See also Renz 1982 and Robert and Bulot 2005
Sister taxon: Parahoplitidae
Subtaxa: Deshayesitinae Mathoceratinae Turkmeniceras
Type: Deshayesites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Azerbaijan (2 collections), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (1), France (34), Georgia (1), Germany (4), Greenland (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (29), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (15), Tanzania (1), Turkmenistan (13), the United Kingdom (41), United States (20: Arizona, Louisiana, Texas), Venezuela (6)
Total: 183 collections including 310 occurrences