Lytoceras sutile

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Lytoceras sutile
Temporal range: Jurassic -Cretaceous
Lytoceratidae - Lytoceras sutile.JPG
Fossil of Lytoceras sutile from Jurassic of Italy
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Lytoceratidae
Genus: Lytoceras
Species:
L. sutile
Binomial name
Lytoceras sutile
Oppel, 1868

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]

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