Lytoceras galatiforme Rakús and Guex 2002 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae

Full reference: M. Rakús and J. Guex. 2002. Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne) 39:1-149

Belongs to Lytoceras according to M. Rakús and J. Guex 2002

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 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 inaequalicostatus, Eulytoceras anisoptychum, Eulytoceras phestum, Eulytoceras lepidum, Thysanolytoceras vicinum

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 41.3

Distribution: found only at Jebel Oust East, Roman quarry, bed 7 (lower) (Jurassic of Tunisia)

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