Lobolytoceras

{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Toarcian|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 = Lobolytoceras siemensi low.jpg

| image_caption = Lobolytoceras siemensi

| taxon = Lobolytoceras

| authority = Buckman, 1923

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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Lobolytoceras is an extinct genus of ammonite{{cite book| first1=W.J. |last1=Arkell |first2=B. |last2=Kummel |first3=C.W. |last3=Wright |series=Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4| title=Mesozoic Ammonoidea | publisher=Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press |location=Lawrence, Kansas|year=1957}} in which only the inner whorls have large swollen ribs, later whorls have wrinkled growth lines which coarsen somewhat, near the aperture. The genus is known from the Lower Jurassic Toarcian of Europe. The type species L. siemensi (Denck) came from the Upper Toarcian of Germany.

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