Lytoceras eudesianum

Lytoceras eudesianum
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
Fossil of Lytoceras eudesianum from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Lytoceratidae
Genus: †Lytoceras
Species:
†L. eudesianum
Binomial name
†Lytoceras eudesianum
(Orbigny, 1845)

Lytoceras eudesianum is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived from the Bajocian age to the Bathonian age of the Middle Jurassic.

Shells of Lytoceras eudesianum can reach a diameter of 18 centimetres (7.1 in).

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