Desmoceratidae

Desmoceratidae is a family belonging to the ammonite superfamily Desmoceratoidea.^[1][2] 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).

Desmoceratidae Temporal range: Valanginian - Maastrichtian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Beudanticeras ambanjabense
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Superfamily:	†Desmoceratoidea
Family:	†Desmoceratidae Zittel, 1895
Subgroups
Abrytasites Beudanticeras Damesites Desmoceras Freboldiceras Hauericeras Kennicottia Mesopuzosia Pachydesmoceras Parapuzosia Puzosia Barremitinae

References

1. 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.
2. Desmoceratidae at Paleobiology database, retrieved on July 8, 2012.

External links

• Wright C.W. with J.H. Callomon and M.K. Howarth (1996). "Mollusca 4 Revised: Cretaceous Ammonoidea". In Roger L. Kaesler (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Vol. 4. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: The Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press. p. 69-71 – via Internet Archive.
• (in French) Desmoceratidae on Ammonites et autres fossiles - Cyril Baudouin
• (in French) Desmoceratidae on Laboratoire du Groupe de Recherche en Paléobiologie et Biostratigaphie des Ammonites; Ammonites du Jurassique et du Crétacé