Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Muniericeratidae
Parent taxon: Muniericeratidae according to W. A. Cobban 1972
See also Cobban and Hook 1983, Ifrim and Stinnesbeck 2007, Matsumoto 1959 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Muniericeras, Pseudoschloenbachia, Texasia
Subtaxa: Tragodesmoceras ashlandicum Tragodesmoceras averilli Tragodesmoceras bassi Tragodesmoceras carlilense Tragodesmoceras clypealoides Tragodesmoceras dresdense Tragodesmoceras socorroense
Type: Desmoceras clypealoides
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (8: British Columbia collections), Germany (1), United States (31: Arizona, California, Kansas, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
Total: 41 collections including 45 occurrences
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