Lithacoceras

Lithacoceras; Temporal range: Oxfordian–Tithonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	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:	Perisphinctoidea
Family:	Ataxioceratidae
Genus:	Lithacoceras; Hyatt, 1900
Species
	Lithacoceras malarguense Spath, 1931; Lithacoceras picunleufuense Parent et al., 2011;

Lithacoceras is an extinct Ammonite cephalopod genus included in the superfamily Perisphinctoidea. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, from the Oxfordian age to the Tithonian age.^[1]

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.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
^ ^a ^b Paleobiology Database - Lithacoceras. 2017-10-19.

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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[Sepkoski_Ceph-1] Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2017-10-18.

[paleodb-2] Paleobiology Database - Lithacoceras. 2017-10-19.

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