†family Diestoceratidae Foerste 1926 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae

Parent taxon: Oncocerida according to B. Kröger and M. Aubrechtová 2019

See also Crick 1981, Kröger et al. 2011, Sweet 1958 and Teichert et al. 1964

Sister taxa: Acleistoceratidae, Agrioceras, Aktjuboceratidae, Alloceras, Almaloceras, Anonymoceras, Anthomorpha, Antonoceras, Aphyctoceras, Apioceras, Archiacoceratidae, Atomoceras, Balashovia, Barskoceras, Brevicoceratidae, Corbuloceras, Corysoceras, Cyrthocerataceae, Cyrtoceras, Devonocheilidae, Doleroceras, Eocyrtoceras, Eudoceras, Gomphoceras, Graciloceratidae, Guangyuanoceras, Guangyuanoceroides, Hemiphragmoceratidae, Iowoceras, Jovellaniidae, Karoceratidae, Kophinoceras, Lychnoceras, Megaloceras, Mimolychnoceras, Mnemoceras, Nelimenia, Nothoceratidae, Oligoceras, Oncoceratidae, Oonoceratidae, Oratoceras, Pachtoceras, Polyelasmoceratidae, Poterioceratidae, Pseudobrevicoceras, Pyramidoceras, Ramussenoceras, Rutoceratoidea, Spanioceras, Sycoceras, Torquatoceras, Trigonodema, Trimeroceratidae, Tripleuroceratidae, Valcouroceratidae, Wetherbyoceras, Xainzanoceras

Subtaxa: Danoceras Diestoceras Dowlingoceras Lyckholmoceras Suttonoceras

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Ecology: fast-moving nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Silurian of Canada (3: Quebec collections)

• Ordovician of Canada (26: Manitoba, Mantiboa, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan), China (1), Estonia (5), Greenland (1), Norway (13), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (4), United States (42: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Wyoming)

Total: 99 collections including 135 occurrences

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