Lytoceras fimbriatum
Lytoceras fimbriatum | |
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Fossil shells of Lytoceras fimbriatum from United Kingdom, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Lytoceratidae |
Genus: | †Lytoceras |
Species: | †L. fimbriatum
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Binomial name | |
†Lytoceras fimbriatum Sowerby, 1817
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Lytoceras fimbriatum is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Jurassic period.
Description[]
Shells of Lytoceras cornucopia can reach an average diameter of about 74 millimetres (2.9 in).[1]
Distribution[]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic rocks of France, Germany, Hungary, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States.[1]
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Categories:
- Jurassic ammonites
- Lytoceratidae
- Ammonitida stubs