Lytoceras perplexum Meister et al. 2011 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae

Full reference: C. Meister, J. Schlögl, and M. Rakús. 2011. Sinemurian ammonites from Male Karpaty Mts., Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Part 1: Phylloceratoidea, Lytoceratoidea, Schlotheimiidae. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 259(1):25-88

Belongs to Lytoceras according to C. Meister et al. 2011

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 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, Thysanolytoceras vicinum, Eulytoceras anisoptychum, Eulytoceras lepidum, Eulytoceras phestum, Eulytoceras inaequalicostatus, Hemilytoceras immanis, Pterolytoceras magnum, Pterolytoceras exoticus

Type specimen: SNM35713. Its type locality is Male Karpaty Mts., Chtelnica localities 1-2, Beds 4 and 5, which is in a Sinemurian marine limestone in Slovakia.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Male Karpaty Mts., Chtelnica localities 1-2, Beds 4 and 5

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