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Lytoceras sutile

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Family
  
Lytoceratidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Order
  
Lytoceratida

Genus
  
Lytoceras

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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.

References

Lytoceras sutile Wikipedia