Lytoceras eudesianum

Lytoceras eudesianum is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived from the Bajocian age to the Bathonian age of the Middle Jurassic.

Lytoceras eudesianum

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 43 of 43 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 43 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 4 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–161 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences168.6 Mya165.3 Mya171.4 Mya161 Mya

43 occurrences of Lytoceras eudesianum on record, most of them in the Middle 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

43 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

Kialagvik — 57.31°N, 156.42°WKambe — 4.02°S, 39.55°E

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The named rock units Lytoceras eudesianum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lytoceras eudesianum and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Lytoceras eudesianum and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

277 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Lytoceras eudesianum, 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

9 references

Each of the 43 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 eudesianum

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

No 3D scan of Lytoceras eudesianum 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

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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 Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1846)