Desmoceratoidea
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Desmoceratoidea Temporal range:
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Desmoceras sp. – Lower cretaceous (Albian) from Mahajanga, Madagascar | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Suborder: | †Ammonitina |
Superfamily: | †Desmoceratoidea Zittel, 1895 |
Families | |
Synonyms | |
Desmocerataceae |
Desmoceratoidea, formerly Desmocerataceae, is a superfamily of Cretaceous ammonites, generally with round or oval-whorled shells that are mostly smooth or weakly ribbed and rarely tuberculate, but commonly with constrictions.[1][2] Regarded as monophyletic, the Desmocerataceae are derived from the Phylloceratidae, splitting off in the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) and persisting to the end of the Maastrichtian.
References
- ^ Desmoceratoidea at Paleobiology database, retrieved on July 8, 2012.
- ^ 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, 67-111.
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