Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Belongs to Lytoceras according to E. Avram and E. Gradinaru 1993
Sister taxa: Lytoceras (Argonauticeras), Lytoceras (Derolytoceras), Lytoceras (Saturnoceras), Lytoceras (Trachylytoceras), Lytoceras album, Lytoceras aulaeum, Lytoceras baconicum, Lytoceras batesi, Lytoceras belliseptatiforme, Lytoceras celticum, Lytoceras colusaense, Lytoceras cornucopia, Lytoceras crenatum, Lytoceras elegans, Lytoceras eudesianum, Lytoceras fimbriatoides, Lytoceras fimbriatum, Lytoceras francisci, Lytoceras fuggeri, Lytoceras furcicrenatum, Lytoceras galatiforme, Lytoceras huberti, Lytoceras juilleti, Lytoceras lexeni, Lytoceras liebigi, Lytoceras linneanum, Lytoceras montanum, Lytoceras municipale, Lytoceras orsinii, Lytoceras ovimontanum, Lytoceras perplexum, Lytoceras pictaviense, Lytoceras polycyclum, Lytoceras praesublineatum, Lytoceras rex, Lytoceras rhodanicum, Lytoceras salebrosum, Lytoceras saturnale, Lytoceras schlosseri, Lytoceras secernendum, Lytoceras siemensi, Lytoceras strambergensis, Lytoceras subfimbriatum, Lytoceras subfrancisci, Lytoceras sublineatum, Lytoceras subsequens, Lytoceras sutile, Lytoceras taharoaense, Lytoceras traski, Lytoceras trompianum, Lytoceras villae, Lytoceras vogdti, Metalytoceras triboleti, Pterolytoceras magnum, Pterolytoceras exoticus, Hemilytoceras immanis, Eulytoceras lepidum, Eulytoceras phestum, Eulytoceras anisoptychum, Eulytoceras inaequalicostatus, Thysanolytoceras vicinum
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 46.3
Distribution: found only at Piatra Mare Quarry, Codlea, Brasov Formation (Cretaceous of Romania)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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