Desmoceras
Desmoceras Temporal range:
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Desmoceras sp. – Lower Cretaceous (Albian) from Mahajanga, Madagascar | |
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Class: | Cephalopoda
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Genus: | †Desmoceras Zittel, 1884
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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[]
- 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 (Hiló Formation),[1] Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Madagascar (Mahajanga Province), Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Russia, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.
Gallery[]
Desmoceras latidorsatum. Salzburg, Haus der Natur
Desmoceras carolense, Bathurst Island, Australia
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Categories:
- Ammonitida genera
- Desmoceratidae
- Cretaceous ammonites
- Albian life
- Early Cretaceous ammonites of North America
- Ammonites of South America
- Cretaceous Colombia
- Albian genus extinctions
- Ammonitina stubs