Ptycholytoceras
| Ptycholytoceras Temporal range: Toarcian[1] | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Lytoceratida |
| Family: | Lytoceratidae |
| Subfamily: | Lytoceratinae |
| Genus: | Ptycholytoceras Spath, 1927 |
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Ptycholytoceras is fast-moving nektonic ammonoid carnivore [2] included in the Lytoceratinae in which the shell has round inner and depressed outer whorls and sides with dorso-ventrally sloping folds that do not pass onto the venter,(outer rim).
The type species Phycholyioceras humile (Prinz), named by Spath, 1924, first described as Lytoceras humile by Prinz in 1904, came from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian)[1] of Hungary.
References
W.J.Arkell,et al 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Geological Society of America and Univ Kansas press.
- β 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- β "Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.