Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Alternative combinations: Ammonites exoticus, Lytoceras exoticum, Pterolytoceras exoticum
Belongs to Pterolytoceras according to C. W. Wright et al. 1996
See also Helmstaedt 1969 and Salazar Soto 2012
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 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, Thysanolytoceras vicinum, Pterolytoceras magnum, Metalytoceras triboleti, Hemilytoceras immanis, Eulytoceras phestum, Eulytoceras anisoptychum, Eulytoceras inaequalicostatus, Eulytoceras lepidum
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Greenland (2 collections)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Chile (1)
• Jurassic of China (1), India (2), Madagascar (1), Nepal (1)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
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