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Audaxlytoceras

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Audaxlytoceras
Temporal range: Pliensbachian[1]
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Audaxlytoceras

Fucini, 1923
Species [2]
  • A. apertum
  • A. audax
  • A. grandonense
  • A. spirorbis
  • A. varicosum

Audaxlytoceras is an extinct lytoceratid from the Lower Jurassic. Its shell small, smooth, evolute (all whorls showing), only slightly impressed dorsally (along the inner rim). Whorls are compressed, subquadrate in section, higher than wide, with few narrow constrictions. The suture relatively simple with a long ventral lobe and two lateral lobes.

The Middle Jurassic Nannolytoceras is its closest relative

References

Notes
  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ Paleobiology Database - Audaxlytoceras. 2014-05-29.
Bibliography
  • Arkell, et al. 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Systematic Descriptions. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L, Ammonoidea. Geol Soc of Amer. and Univ Kans. Press. L199