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
- 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. [1]
References
- Wojciech Brochwicz-Lewiński Middle Oxfordian representatives of the genera Lithacoceras Hyatt, 1900, and Liosphinctes Buckman, 1925, from the Polish Jura Chain
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