Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1938. Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon. Geological Society of America Special Paper 16:1-331
Belongs to Lytoceras according to R. W. Imlay 1960
Sister taxa: Lytoceras (Argonauticeras), Lytoceras (Derolytoceras), Lytoceras (Saturnoceras), Lytoceras (Trachylytoceras), Lytoceras album, 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 richei, 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, Thysanolytoceras vicinum, Pterolytoceras magnum, Pterolytoceras exoticus, Eulytoceras anisoptychum, Eulytoceras lepidum, Eulytoceras phestum, Eulytoceras inaequalicostatus, Hemilytoceras immanis
Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS Loc113, Mitchell Creek, which is in a Hauterivian marine siliciclastic in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (15: California, Oregon collections)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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