Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Alternative combinations: Ammonites cornucopia, Thysanoceras cornucopia
Belongs to Lytoceras according to Z. Kovács 2011
See also Delsate and Weis 2010, Hoffmann 2015 and Howarth 1962
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 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, Eulytoceras phestum, Eulytoceras lepidum, Eulytoceras anisoptychum, Eulytoceras inaequalicostatus, Metalytoceras triboleti, Hemilytoceras immanis, Pterolytoceras magnum, Pterolytoceras exoticus, Thysanolytoceras vicinum
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): diameter 140.0
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (2 collections), Hungary (21), Italy (5), Luxembourg (1), Slovakia (1), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 33 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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