†subfamily Desmoceratinae Zittel 1895 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae

Parent taxon: Desmoceratidae according to J. P. Gautam et al. 2019

See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Cooper 1978, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Kennedy 1984, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy 2018, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy et al. 1992, Kennedy and Klinger 2013, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Kennedy and Morris 2018, Klinger 1985, Matsumoto 1959, Summesberger 1980, Szives 2007, Ward and Kennedy 1993, Wright 1952 and Wright and Kennedy 1984

Sister taxa: Barremitinae, Bassites, Caseyella, Eodesmoceratinae, Hauericeratinae, Pseudosaynellinae, Puzosiinae, Silesitoidinae, Uhligellinae, Wollemanniceras

Subtaxa: Burckhardtites Damesites Desmoceras Desmophyllites Microdesmoceras Moremanoceras Onitshoceras Tragodesmoceroides

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Type: Desmoceras

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Angola (14 collections), Antarctica (3), Australia (16), Austria (4), Brazil (3), Cameroon (1), Canada (40: British Columbia, Nunavut), Colombia (13), Egypt (3), France (54), Germany (3), Hungary (1), India (11), Italy (1), Japan (61), Madagascar (17), Mexico (18), Mozambique (1), Nigeria (7), Oman (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (6), the Russian Federation (10), South Africa (10), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (113: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Wyoming), Venezuela (5)

Total: 427 collections including 484 occurrences

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