Lithacoceras

Lithacoceras
Temporal range: Jurassic, 161.2–145.5 Ma

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Fossil of Lithacoceras achilles from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Perisphinctaceae
Family: Ataxioceratidae
Genus: Lithacoceras
Hyatt 1900

Lithacoceras is an extinct Ammonite cephalopod genus included in the superfamily Perisphinctaceae.

These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, from the Oxfordian age to the Tithonian age. [2]

Species

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic sediments of Antarctica, Argentina, Canada, Cuba, France, Germany, Madagascar, Somalia, Spain, United States and Yemen. [1]

References

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