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Lithacoceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Ammonitida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Ammonoidea

Superfamily
  
Perisphinctaceae

Lithacoceras

Similar
  
Ataxioceratidae, Virgatosphinctes, Aspidoceras, Ataxioceras, Haploceras

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

Contents

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

Species

  • Lithacoceras achilles d'Orbigny
  • Lithacoceras magnum
  • Lithacoceras picunleufuense Parent et al. 2011
  • Lithacoceras tarodaense Kobayashi

    • 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.

    References

    Lithacoceras Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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