Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Full reference: M. Collignon. 1962. Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule IX (Aptien). Service Géologique Tananarive 1-64
Belongs to Lytoceras according to M. Collignon 1962
Sister taxa: Lytoceras (Argonauticeras), Lytoceras (Derolytoceras), Lytoceras (Saturnoceras), Lytoceras (Trachylytoceras), Lytoceras album, Lytoceras aulaeum, Lytoceras baconicum, Lytoceras batesi, 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, Pterolytoceras magnum, Pterolytoceras exoticus, Hemilytoceras immanis, Eulytoceras lepidum, Eulytoceras phestum, Eulytoceras anisoptychum, Eulytoceras inaequalicostatus, Thysanolytoceras vicinum
Type specimen: Collignon_fig953, a shell. Its type locality is SPM 1969, Section 9A-B, Soromaraina (Marovoay), which is in an Aptian marine horizon in Madagascar.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 183.0
Distribution: found only at SPM 1969, Section 9A-B, Soromaraina (Marovoay)
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