| Lytoceras cornucopia Temporal range: Jurassic (Upper Lias), [1]
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| Fossil shells of Lytoceras cornucopia from Isère (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Lytoceratidae |
| Genus: | †Lytoceras |
| Species: | †L. cornucopia
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| Binomial name | |
| †Lytoceras cornucopia Young and Bird, 1822
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Lytoceras cornucopia is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Jurassic period.
Description
Shells of Lytoceras cornucopia can reach an average diameter of about 140 millimetres (5.5 in).[1]
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic rocks of France, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg and United Kingdom.[1]
References
- ^ a b c The Paleobiology Database
External links
- Ammonites
- Whitbymuseum
