Lithacoceras
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Oxfordian|Tithonian|ref={{cite journal | last=Sepkoski | first=Jack | title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry) | journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=363 | pages=1–560 | year=2002 | url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class |accessdate=2017-10-18 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507014300/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class | archivedate=2008-05-07 }}}}
| image = Ataxioceratidae - Lithacoceras achilles.JPG
| image_caption = Fossil of Lithacoceras achilles from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
| taxon = Lithacoceras
| authority = Hyatt, 1900
| subdivision =
- Lithacoceras malarguense Spath, 1931
- Lithacoceras picunleufuense Parent et al., 2011
}}
Lithacoceras is an extinct ammonite cephalopod genus included in the superfamily Perisphinctoidea. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, from the Oxfordian age to the Tithonian age.
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic sediments of Antarctica, Argentina, Canada, Cuba, France, Germany, Madagascar, Somalia, Spain, United States and Yemen.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15125 Paleobiology Database - Lithacoceras]. 2017-10-19.
References
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- Wojciech Brochwicz-Lewiński [https://geojournals.pgi.gov.pl/agp/article/view/9895 Middle Oxfordian representatives of the genera Lithacoceras Hyatt, 1900, and Liosphinctes Buckman, 1925, from the Polish Jura Chain]
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Category:Ammonites of North America
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