Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Alternative spelling: Damesiceras
Invalid subtaxa: Kotoceras Yabe 1927 [replaced name], Neokotoceras Anderson 1958
Parent taxon: Desmoceratinae according to W. J. Kennedy 2018
See also Anderson 1958, Howarth 1966, Jones 1963, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy and Klinger 2013, Matsumoto 1959, Sepkoski 2002, Shigeta and Izukura 2018, Summesberger 1980 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Burckhardtites, Desmoceras, Desmophyllites, Microdesmoceras, Moremanoceras, Onitshoceras, Tragodesmoceroides
Subtaxa: Damesites ainuanus Damesites damesi Damesites hetonaiensis Damesites laticarinatus Damesites semicostatus Damesites sugata
Type: Desmoceras damesi
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (3 collections), Austria (1), Brazil (1), Canada (3: British Columbia), France (5), India (2), Japan (35), the Russian Federation (4), South Africa (3), Spain (2), United States (15: Alaska, California, Wyoming)
Total: 74 collections including 80 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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