Lytoceras sutile
| Lytoceras sutile Temporal range:
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| Fossil of Lytoceras sutile from Jurassic of Italy | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Lytoceratidae |
| Genus: | †Lytoceras |
| Species: | †L. sutile
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| Binomial name | |
| †Lytoceras sutile Oppel, 1868
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Lytoceras sutile is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.
Fossil record[]
Fossils of Lytoceras sutile have been found from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous (age range: from 150.8 to 136.4 million years ago). They are known from various localities of Italy, Austria and Czechoslovakia.[1]
References[]
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