Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Deshayesitidae
Parent taxon: Deshayesitaceae according to O. Szives 2007
See also Renz 1982 and Robert and Bulot 2005
Sister taxon: Parahoplitidae
Subtaxa: Deshayesitinae Mathoceratinae Turkmeniceras
Type: Deshayesites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Azerbaijan (2 collections), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (1), France (34), Georgia (1), Germany (4), Greenland (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Iran (89), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (29), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia (1), Spain (15), Tanzania (1), Turkmenistan (13), Türkiye (7), the United Kingdom (43), United States (20: Arizona, Louisiana, Texas), Venezuela (6)
Total: 281 collections including 465 occurrences