Lytoceras sutile

Lytoceras sutile is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.

Lytoceras sutile

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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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 4 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152.21 Mya137.05 Mya155.3 Mya132.1 Mya

6 occurrences of Lytoceras sutile on record, most of them in the Late 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

6 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

2 formations

Mraznica — 49.03°N, 18.33°ERossfeld — 47.69°N, 13.66°E

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The named rock units Lytoceras sutile has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lytoceras sutile and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Lytoceras sutile and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lytoceras sutile, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lytoceras sutile

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lytoceras sutile was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppel 1863)