Megalytoceras amplum Oppel 1862 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae

Alternative combination: Ammonites amplus

Full reference: A. Oppel. 1862. III: Ueber jurassische Cephalopoden. Palaeontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Koeniglichen Bayerischen Staates 1:127-262

Belongs to Megalytoceras according to S.S. Buckman 1905

See also Oppel 1862

Sister taxa: Megalytoceras confusum, Megalytoceras kasakovae, Megalytoceras metretum, Megalytoceras rasile, Megalytoceras rubescens, Megalytoceras trapeza

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Megalytoceras amplum in the database

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