Lytoceras cornucopia

Lytoceras cornucopia
Temporal range: Jurassic (Upper Lias), 183.0–175.6 Ma [1]
Fossil shells of Lytoceras cornucopia from Isère (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Lytoceratidae
Genus: Lytoceras
Species:
L. cornucopia
Binomial name
Lytoceras cornucopia
Young and Bird, 1822

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