Lithacoceras
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| Lithacoceras Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil of Lithacoceras achilles from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Ataxioceratidae |
| Genus: | †Lithacoceras Hyatt, 1900 |
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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.[1]
