Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Parent taxon: Desmoceratidae according to K. Yoshinaga et al. 2024
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Cooper 1978, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Gautam et al. 2019, 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
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (14 collections), Antarctica (3), Australia (16), Austria (4), Brazil (3), Cameroon (1), Canada (41: British Columbia, Nunavut), Colombia (13), Egypt (3), France (54), Germany (3), Hungary (1), India (11), Italy (1), Japan (63), Madagascar (17), Mexico (18), Mozambique (1), Nigeria (7), Oman (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (6), the Russian Federation (12), South Africa (10), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (114: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Wyoming), Venezuela (5)
Total: 433 collections including 492 occurrences