Desmoceras
Desmoceras Temporal range: | |
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Desmoceras sp. – Lower Cretaceous (Albian) from Mahajanga, Madagascar | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Desmoceratidae |
Subfamily: | †Desmoceratinae |
Genus: | †Desmoceras Zittel, 1884 |
Desmoceras is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Desmoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Early Cretaceous; Albian epoch.
Species
[edit]- Desmoceras alamoense
- Desmoceras argonauticum
- Desmoceras austeni
- Desmoceras barryae
- Desmoceras chimuense
- Desmoceras ezoanum
- Desmoceras inane
- Desmoceras latidorsatum
- Desmoceras pseudinane
- Desmoceras pseudouhligella
- Desmoceras uhligella
Distribution
[edit]Cretaceous of Angola, Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Colombia (Hiló Formation),[1] Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Madagascar (Mahajanga Province), Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Russia, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.
Gallery
[edit]- Desmoceras latidorsatum. Salzburg, Haus der Natur
- Desmoceras carolense, Bathurst Island, Australia
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