Desmophyllites Spath 1829 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae

Invalid subtaxa: Schlueteria de Grossouvre 1894 [replaced name], Schluetericeras Collignon 1938, Schluteria de Grossouvre 1894 [replaced name]

Parent taxon: Desmoceratinae according to W. J. Kennedy and H. C. Klinger 2013

See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Henderson and McNamara 1985, Ifrim et al. 2013, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy et al. 1992, Kennedy and Summesberger 1999, Klinger 1985, Matsumoto 1959, Matsumoto 1984, Sepkoski 2002, Shigeta 2016, Shigeta and Izukura 2018 and Ward and Kennedy 1993

Sister taxa: Burckhardtites, Damesites, Desmoceras, Microdesmoceras, Moremanoceras, Onitshoceras, Tragodesmoceroides

Subtaxa: Desmophyllites diphylloides Desmophyllites larteti

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Angola (1 collection), Australia (15), Austria (2), Brazil (1), Cameroon (1), France (10), Germany (1), India (1), Japan (10), Mexico (1), Oman (1), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (3), Ukraine (1), United States (24: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Washington)

Total: 76 collections including 79 occurrences

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