Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Synonyms: Desmoceras (Latidorsella) Jacob 1907, Eodesmoceras Spath 1923, Latidorsella Jacob 1907, Lunatodorsella Breistroffer 1947, Phyllodesmoceras Spath 1925
Parent taxon: Desmoceratinae according to J. P. Gautam et al. 2019
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Benavides-Caceres 1956, Cobban 1972, Cooper 1978, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Henderson 1990, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Klinger 2013, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Kennedy and Morris 2018, Matsumoto 1959, Matsumoto and Skwarko 1993, Reyment 1955, Sepkoski 2002, Stanton 1895, Szives 2007, Whitehouse 1928, Wright et al. 1996 and Wright and Kennedy 1984
Sister taxa: Burckhardtites, Damesites, Desmophyllites, Microdesmoceras, Moremanoceras, Onitshoceras, Tragodesmoceroides
Subtaxa: Desmoceras (Desmoceras) Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) Desmoceras chimuense Desmoceras hoffmanni Desmoceras inane Desmoceras kossmati Desmoceras planorbiforme Desmoceras pseudinane Desmoceras voyi
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (10 collections), Antarctica (3), Australia (1), Austria (1), Brazil (1), Canada (37: British Columbia, Nunavut), Colombia (13), Egypt (3), France (39), Germany (2), Hungary (1), India (7), Italy (1), Japan (17), Madagascar (17), Mexico (5), Mozambique (1), Nigeria (6), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (4), the Russian Federation (4), South Africa (4), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (52: Alaska, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (3)
Total: 240 collections including 279 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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