Desmoceratidae

Last updated

Desmoceratidae
Temporal range: Valanginian - Maastrichtian
Bu Dan Te Ju Shi Hua Shi .jpg
Beudanticeras ambanjabense
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Desmoceratoidea
Family: Desmoceratidae
Zittel, 1895
Genera

Desmoceratidae is a family belonging to the ammonite superfamily Desmoceratoidea. [2] [3] They are an extinct group of ammonoids, shelled cephalopods related to squid, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids, that lived between the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Valanginian) and Upper Cretaceous (Upper Maastrichtian).

References

  1. Tomohiro Nishimura; Haruyoshi Maeda (2025). "Taxonomy and paleobiogeography of some Late Cretaceous desmoceratine ammonoids from the northwest Pacific province" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 70 (2): 259–283. doi:10.4202/app.01207.2024.
  2. Wright, C. W. with Callomon, J.H. and Howarth, M.K. (1996), Mollusca 4 Revised , Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler et el. eds.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 69-71.
  3. Desmoceratidae at Paleobiology database, retrieved on July 8, 2012.