Eulytoceras Temporal range: Cretaceous, [1] | |
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Fossil shells of Eulytoceras phestum from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ammonitida |
Family: | † Lytoceratidae |
Subfamily: | † Lytoceratinae |
Genus: | † Eulytoceras Spath, 1927 |
Eulytoceras is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores [1] lived in the Cretaceous period, from Hauterivian age to Barremian age. [2]
Shells of Eulytoceras species reach a diameter of about 72–140 millimetres (2.8–5.5 in). [3] [4]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous rocks of Antarctica, Austria, Canada, Italy, Madagascar, South Africa and Spain. [1]
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