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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4627650	https://www.gbif.org/species/4627650
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	14752	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14752

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Desmoceratidae : Damesites

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Desmoceratidae : Damesites

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Ammonoidea
order	Ammonitida	Hyatt 1889
suborder	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Desmoceratoidea
family	Desmoceratidae	Zittel 1895
subfamily	Desmoceratinae	Zittel 1895
genus	Damesites	Matsumoto 1942

Scientific Name

Damesites Matsumoto, 1942

Name Published In

Proc. imp. Acad. Japan, 18: 24 (conserved under the plenary power)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Damesites	genus	belongs to Desmoceratidae	stated without evidence	Howarth, 1966
Damesites	genus	belongs to Desmoceratinae	stated with evidence	Summesberger, 1980
Damesites	genus	belongs to Desmoceratidae	stated with evidence	Wright et al., 1996
Damesites	genus	belongs to Ammonoidea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Damesites	genus	belongs to Desmoceratinae	stated with evidence	Kennedy and Klinger, 2013
Damesites	genus	belongs to Desmoceratidae	stated without evidence	Shigeta and Izukura, 2018
Damesites	genus	belongs to Desmoceratinae	stated with evidence	Kennedy, 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

112 - 109 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ammonoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Ammonoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Damesites damesi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Damesites hetonaiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Damesites rabei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Damesites sugata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Damesites tsianalokyensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Kotoceras Yabe, 1927	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Desmoceratidae : *Kotoceras*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1927	Kotoceras Yabe p. 36
1942	Damesites Matsumoto p. 24
1958	Neokotoceras Anderson
1963	Neokotoceras Jones p. 34
1966	Damesites Howarth p. 222
1980	Damesites Summesberger p. 278

Year	Name and Author
1995	Damesites Kennedy p. 398
1996	Damesites Wright et al. p. 83
2002	Damesites Sepkoski, Jr.
2013	Damesites Kennedy and Klinger p. 44
2018	Damesites Kennedy p. 672
2018	Damesites Shigeta and Izukura p. 16

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Anderson F. M. (1958) Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast, Geological Society of America Memoir 71, 1-378

Jones D. L. (1963) Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maestrichtian) ammonites from southern Alaska, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 432, 1-53

Howarth M. K. (1966) A mid-Turonian ammonite fauna from the Mocamedes desert, Angola, Garcia de Orta (Lisboa) 14 2, 217-228

Summesberger H. (1980) Neue Ammoniten aus der Sandkalkbank der Hochmoosschichten (Obersanton; Gosau, Österreich), Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 83, 275-283

Kennedy W. J. (1995) Systematic palaeontology, in Ammonite faunas, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian of the Corbières (NE Pyrénées), Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Elf Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine 19, 377-499

Wright C. W., Calloman J. H., et al (1996) Cretaceous Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology L 4, 1-362

Kennedy W. J., Klinger H. C. (2013) Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subfamily Desmoceratinae Zittel, 1895, African Natural History 9, 39-54

Kennedy W. J. (2018) Systematic palaeontology - ammonites, in Inoceramids and associated ammonite faunas from the uppermost Turonian-lower Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Anaipadi–Saradamangalam region of the Cauvery Basin, south-east India, Acta Geologica Polonica 68, 663-687

Shigeta Y., Izukura M. (2018) Discovery of the middle Campanian (Late Cretaceous) "Soya Fauna" ammonoids in the Hidaka area, Hokkaido, Japan, The Bulletin of the Hobetsu Museum 33, 11-25

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Imp. Acad. Japan, 18 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 555 Validation under the Plenary Powers of the generic names Kotoceras Kobayashi, 1934 (class Cephalopoda, order Nautiloidea) and Damesites Matsumoto, 1942 (class Cephalopoda, order Ammonoidea).Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 20(22), 249-256 (1959) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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