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Desmoceratidae

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Desmoceratidae
Temporal range: Valanginian - Maastrichtian
Beudanticeras ambanjabense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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.[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).

References

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  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.
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  • 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