Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Parent taxon: Lytoceratidae according to J. T. Whicher et al. 2023
See also Alsen 2006, Blau 1998, Förster and Weier 1983, Galácz and Kassai 2012, Grigore 2013, Hoffmann 2010, Imlay and Jones 1970, Landra et al. 2000, Maisch and Salfinger-Maisch 2016, Murphy 1967, Reboulet 1996, von Mojsisovics 1882, Westermann 1969, Wright 1952 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Alocolytoceratinae, Analytoceratinae, Ectocentritinae, Hemilytoceratinae, Megalytoceratinae, Neocyrtochilus, Pleuroacanthinae, Pleuroacanthitinae, Takahashiceras, Tragolytoceras
Subtaxa: Ammonoceratites Carinolytoceras Lobolytoceras Lytoceras Ptycholytoceras Zaghouanites
Type: Lytoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Motuan of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (8), Austria (21), Canada (9: British Columbia), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (3), Egypt (3), France (206), Greenland (19), Hungary (25), Italy (14), Japan (1), Madagascar (11), Mexico (1), Morocco (4), Mozambique (1), Poland (3), Portugal (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (3), South Africa (3), Spain (39), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tanzania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (25), Ukraine (1), United States (45: Alaska, California, North Carolina, Oregon)
• Heterian of New Zealand (7)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (2)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Chile (1)
• Jurassic of Austria (27), Canada (9: British Columbia), Chile (8), China (2), Egypt (1), France (182), Germany (13), Greenland (1), Hungary (195), India (3), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (51), Japan (14), Kenya (2), Luxembourg (4), Madagascar (21), Mexico (1), Morocco (50), Nepal (1), New Zealand (7), Portugal (1), Romania (14), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (4), Spain (6), Switzerland (5), Tunisia (14), Turkey (12), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (25), United States (19: Alaska, California)
Total: 1167 collections including 1356 occurrences