Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae

Full reference: G. R. Stevens. 1985. A revision of the Lytoceratinae (Subclass Ammonoidea) including Lytoceras taharoaense n. sp., Upper Jurassic, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 28:153-185

Belongs to Lytoceras according to G. R. Stevens 1985

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 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 traski, Lytoceras trompianum, Lytoceras villae, Lytoceras vogdti, Pterolytoceras magnum, Pterolytoceras exoticus, Thysanolytoceras vicinum, Hemilytoceras immanis, Metalytoceras triboleti, Eulytoceras inaequalicostatus, Eulytoceras lepidum, Eulytoceras anisoptychum, Eulytoceras phestum

Type specimen: Its type locality is GS 12135, Heteri Peninsula, Kawhia (R16/f19), which is in a Kimmeridgian marine horizon in New Zealand

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 260.6

Distribution:

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