Nannolytoceras
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| Fossil shells of Nannolytoceras tripartitum from Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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| Phylum: | Mollusca |
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| Order: | Lytoceratida |
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| Genus: | Nannolytoceras Buckman, 1905
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Nannolytoceras is an
ammonite, family Lytoceratidae, with a stratigraphic range extending from the Bajocian age to Bathonian age (Medium Jurassic).[1]
Description
Shells of Nannolytoceras species reach a diameter of about 46–75 millimetres (1.8–3.0 in).[2][3] The shell is evolute, smooth, tubular to compressed, with a variable number of more or less regularly spaced deep constrictions.[3] The very thin ribs crossing the ventral region are barely visible. Umbilicus is relatively large. The suture line is of ammonitic type.[4] These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.[5]
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic rocks of Italy, Spain,[5] Slovakia,[6] and France.[7]
References
- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
- ^ Ammonites Nannolytoceras - Nannolytoceras tripartitum
- ^ a b Ammonites.fr
- ^ Redjaen
- ^ a b Paleobiology Database - Nannolytoceras. 2017-10-19.
- ^ Schlögl Ján (2001). Sedimentológia a biostratigrafia červených hľuznatých vápencov čorštýnskeho súvrstvia ("Ammonitico Rosso") v pieninskom bradlovom pásme.
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