Lytoceras sutile

Lytoceras sutile
Temporal range: Jurassic -Cretaceous
Fossil of Lytoceras sutile from Jurassic of Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Lytoceratida
Family: Lytoceratidae
Genus: Lytoceras
Species: L. sutile
Binomial name
Lytoceras sutile
Oppel 1868

Lytoceras sutile is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.

Fossil record

Fossils of Lytoceras sutile have been found from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous (age range: from 150.8 to 136.4 million years ago). They are known from various localities of Italy, Austria and Czechoslovakia.[1]

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