Lytoceras batesi

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

Lytoceras batesi
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Fossil shells of Lytoceras batesi from Shasta County, California, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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L. batesi
Binomial name
Lytoceras batesi
Whiteaves, 1884

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