Alternative spelling: Desmocerataceae
Parent taxon: Ammonitina according to J. L. Latil et al. 2023
See also Ahmad et al. 2015, Arkadiev et al. 2000, Benzaggagh et al. 2017, El Qot 2018, Gale et al. 2005, Henderson 1990, Kennedy 1984, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy 1999, Kennedy 2000, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy 2018, Kennedy and Christennsen 1993, Kennedy and Christensen 1991, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy and Cobban 1996, Kennedy et al. 2007, Kennedy and Gale 2015, Kennedy et al. 1992, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Jolkicev 2004, Kennedy and Klinger 2011, Kennedy and Klinger 2013, Kennedy and Morris 2018, Kennedy and Summesberger 1999, Lehmann et al. 2016, Lehmann et al. 2013, Matsumoto 1954, Nagy 1970, Niebuhr et al. 2016, Reboulet 1996, Robert et al. 2018, Sealey and Lucas 2017, Sharifi et al. 2016, Shigeta 2016, Shigeta and Izukura 2018, Summesberger 1979, Summesberger 1980, Summesberger 1992, Szives 2007, Ward and Kennedy 1993, Wild and Stilwell 2016, Wright 1952, Wright et al. 1996 and Wright and Kennedy 1984
Sister taxa: Acanthoceratoidea, Aspidoceratoidea, Deshayesitoidea, Engonoceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hammatoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea, Hoplitoidea, Lytoceratoidea, Oppeliaceae, Perisphinctaceae, Perisphinctoidea, Psiloceratoidea, Pulchelliaceae, Sphaeroceratoidea, Spiroceratoidea, Stephanoceratoidea, Protetragonitidae, Crioceratitaceae, Tetragonitoidea, Nannolytoceratidae, Hamitaceae
Subtaxa: Beudanticeratidae Desmoceratidae Kossmaticeratidae Muniericeratidae Pachydiscidae Puzosiidae Silesitidae
Type: Desmoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore