Desmoceras
| Desmoceras Temporal range: Albian | |
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| Desmoceras sp. – Lower cretaceous (Albian) from Mahajanga, Madagascar | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | Desmoceratidae |
| Subfamily: | Desmoceratinae |
| Genus: | †Desmoceras Zittel, 1884 |
Desmoceras is a genus of ammonite belonging to the family Desmoceratidae.
These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the early Cretaceous.
Species
- Desmoceras alamoense
- Desmoceras argonauticum
- Desmoceras austeni
- Desmoceras barryae
- Desmoceras chimuense
- Desmoceras ezoanum
- Desmoceras inane
- Desmoceras latidorsatum
- Desmoceras pseudinane
- Desmoceras pseudouhligella
- Desmoceras uhligella
Distribution
Cretaceous of Angola, Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Madagascar (Mahajanga Province), Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Russia, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.
References
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