Lytoceras cornucopia

Lytoceras cornucopia is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Jurassic period.

Lytoceras cornucopia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LytocerasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 180.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 33 of 33 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 33 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 4 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 4 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 4 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 1 occurrence183–182 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences182.9 Mya180.4 Mya184.7 Mya174.2 Mya

33 occurrences of Lytoceras cornucopia on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

33 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

6 formations

Kisgerecse — 47.69°N, 18.48°EKisgerecse Marl — 47.70°N, 18.49°EBugarone — 43.33°N, 13.22°ETolgyhat Limestone — 47.70°N, 18.49°EAlum Shale — 54.49°N, 0.60°WAdnet — 48.89°N, 19.08°E

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The named rock units Lytoceras cornucopia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lytoceras cornucopia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Lytoceras cornucopia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Lytoceras cornucopia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

8 references

Each of the 33 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lytoceras cornucopia

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLytoceras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Young and Bird 1822)