Lytoceras cornucopia
| Lytoceras cornucopia Temporal range: Jurassic (Upper Lias),
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| Fossil shells of Lytoceras cornucopia from Isère (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 |
| Family: | †Lytoceratidae |
| Genus: | †Lytoceras |
| Species: | †L. cornucopia
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| Binomial name | |
| †Lytoceras cornucopia Young and Bird, 1822
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Lytoceras cornucopia is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Jurassic period.