Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Alternative spelling: Desmoceras (Puzosia)
Parent taxon: Puzosiinae according to J. P. Gautam et al. 2019
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Cooper 1978, Cooper 1982, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Jolkicev 2004, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Kennedy and Morris 2018, Matsumoto 1954, Matsumoto 1959, Matsumoto and Skwarko 1993, McLearn 1972, Renz 1982, Robert et al. 2018, Sepkoski 2002, Sharifi et al. 2016, Szives 2007, Whitehouse 1926, Whitehouse 1928, Wright 1979, Wright and Kennedy 1984 and Zaborski 1985
Sister taxa: Abrytusites, Callizoniceras, Feruglioceras, Grandidiericeras, Jimboiceras, Kennicottia, Kitchinites, Lytodiscoides, Melchiorites, Mesopuzosia, Oiophyllites, Pachydesmoceras, Parapuzosia, Pseudohaploceras, Pseudosilesites, Umsinenoceras, Valdedorsella
Subtaxa: Puzosia (Anapuzosia) Puzosia (Bhimaites) Puzosia (Latidorsella) Puzosia (Puzosia) Puzosia alaskana Puzosia aldersona Puzosia ambigua Puzosia angladei Puzosia bistricta Puzosia brasiliana Puzosia crebrisulcata Puzosia cuvervillei Puzosia diadema Puzosia hoffmanni Puzosia intermedia Puzosia lata Puzosia longmani Puzosia media Puzosia nipponica Puzosia nolani Puzosia octosulcata Puzosia puma Puzosia quenstedti Puzosia skidegatensis Puzosia spathi Puzosia subquadrata Puzosia sullivanae Puzosia tenuis
Type: Ammonites planulatus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Motuan of New Zealand (2 collections)
• Cretaceous of Angola (16), Argentina (3), Armenia (1), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (11), Bulgaria (1), Canada (14: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories), Colombia (1), Egypt (5), France (44), Germany (3), Greenland (5), India (6), Indian Ocean (1), Iran (4), Italy (2), Japan (1), Madagascar (16), Mexico (8), Mozambique (1), Nigeria (3), North Atlantic (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Peru (1), Puerto Rico (1), the Russian Federation (5), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (3), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (48: Alaska, California, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (7)
Total: 233 collections including 265 occurrences
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