Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Synonyms: Aegolytoceras, Peripleuroceras Tutcher and Trueman 1925
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1900. Cephalopoda. Textbook of Palaeontology 1:502-604
Parent taxon: Alocolytoceratinae according to A. Galácz and P. Kassai 2012
See also Bourillot et al. 2008, Donovan and Howarth 1982, Hoffmann 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Venturi et al. 2005
Sister taxon: Pleurolytoceras
Subtaxa: Aegolytoceras rotundicosta Alocolytoceras coarctatum Alocolytoceras dorcadis Alocolytoceras germainei Alocolytoceras isztimeri Alocolytoceras ophioneum Alocolytoceras sisyphus Alocolytoceras trautscholdi
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (1 collection), France (8), Germany (3), Hungary (3), Italy (4), Mexico (1), Morocco (9), Spain (6), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 37 collections including 41 occurrences
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