| Lyelliceras Temporal range: Albian
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| Fossil of Lyelliceras lyelli from Peru | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Lyelliceratidae |
| Genus: | †Lyelliceras Spath, 1921 |
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Lyelliceras is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Lyelliceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period, Albian stage (109.0 to 99.7 Ma).[1][2]
- ^ Lyelliceras at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database - Cephalopodes