Desmoceras
Temporal range: Albian
Desmoceras sp. – Lower Cretaceous (Albian) from Mahajanga, Madagascar
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Desmoceratidae
Subfamily: Desmoceratinae
Genus: Desmoceras
Zittel, 1884

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.

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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.

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