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Lytoceratidae ✝

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Description

Lytoceratidae is a taxonomic family of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the suborder Lytoceratina, characterized by very evolute shells that generally enlarge rapidly, having whorls in contact but mostly overlapping very sightly, or not at all.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytoceratidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3245912	https://www.gbif.org/species/3245912
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	129691	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=129691

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Lytoceratidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Lytoceratidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Ammonoidea
order	Ammonitida	Hyatt 1889
suborder	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Lytoceratoidea
family	Lytoceratidae	Neumayr 1875

Scientific Name

Lytoceratidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lytoceratidae	family	belongs to Lytocerataceae	stated with evidence	Wiedmann, 1970
Lytoceratidae	family	belongs to Lytoceratina	stated without evidence	Wiedmann, 1979
Lytoceratidae	family	belongs to Lytoceratina	stated with evidence	Förster and Weier, 1983
Lytoceratidae	family	belongs to Lytocerataceae	stated with evidence	Reboulet, 1996
Lytoceratidae	family	belongs to Lytocerataceae	stated without evidence	Wright et al., 1996
Lytoceratidae	family	belongs to Lytocerataceae	stated with evidence	Blau, 1998

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

164

First Recorded Appearance

209 - 199 Ma
Mesozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

85.8 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ammonoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Ammonoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Wiedmann. 1979. Early Cretaceous mollusks from DSDP Hole 397A off Northwest Africa. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 37:283-287

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytoceratidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Alocolytoceratinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		123	197 Ma Early Jurassic	172 Ma Middle Jurassic
Analytoceratinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		17	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Ectocentritinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		106	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Lytoceratinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		1,261	201 Ma Early Jurassic	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Megalytoceratinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		2	176 Ma Early Jurassic	176 Ma Early Jurassic
Pleuroacanthinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		83	201 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Adnethiceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	201 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Alocolytoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		59	197 Ma Early Jurassic	172 Ma Middle Jurassic
Ammonoceratites genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Analytoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Baltzerites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Bouhamidoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Carinolytoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Castanyiceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Ectocentrites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		30	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Eolytoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		61	201 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Exomiloceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Galaticeras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		51	197 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Holcolytoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	197 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Kericserites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Lytoconites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Lytotropites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Megalytoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	176 Ma Early Jurassic	176 Ma Early Jurassic
Nannolytoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	176 Ma Early Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Neocyrtochilus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Peltolytoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pleuroacanthites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		20	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Pleurolytoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		64	183 Ma Early Jurassic	176 Ma Early Jurassic
Protetragonites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		111	161 Ma Jurassic	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Takahashiceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Tragolytoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Zaghouanites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Holcolytoceratidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Holcolytoceratidae
Ammonoceratitidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Ammonoceratitidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1875	Lytoceratidae Neumayr
1966	Ammonoceratitidae Brunnschweiler p. 15
1970	Lytoceratidae Wiedmann p. 988
1975	Lytoceratidae Förster p. 143
1979	Lytoceratidae Wiedmann p. 284
1983	Lytoceratidae Förster and Weier p. 55
1996	Lytoceratidae Reboulet p. 190
1996	Lytoceratidae Wright et al. p. 2
1998	Lytoceratidae Blau p. 201

Year	Name and Author
2000	Lytoceratidae Arkadiev et al. p. 97
2000	Lytoceratidae Landra et al. p. 34
2004	Lytoceratidae Lukeneder p. 49
2005	Holcolytoceratidae Venturi et al. p. 91
2006	Lytoceratidae Alsen p. 123
2006	Lytoceratidae Hillebrandt p. 46
2010	Lytoceratidae Hoffmann p. 12
2010	Lytoceratidae Hoffmann and Keupp p. 225

References

Wiedmann J. (1979) Early Cretaceous mollusks from DSDP Hole 397A off Northwest Africa, Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 37, 283-287

Brunnschweiler R. O. (1966) Upper Cretaceous ammonites from the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia I: the heteromorph Lytoceratina, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 58, 1-58

Wiedmann J. (1970) Über den Ursprung der Neoammonoideen - das Problem einer Typogenese, Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 63, 923-1020

Förster R. (1975) Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman, Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B 12, 3-324

Förster R., Weier H. (1983) Ammoniten und Alter der Niongala-Schichten (Unterapt, Süd-Tanzania), Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie 23, 51-76

Reboulet S. (1996) L'évolution des ammonites du Valanginien-Hauterivien inférieur du bassin Vocontien et de la plate-form Provençale (sud-est de la France): relations avec la stratigraphie séquentielle et implications biostratigraphiques, Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie Lyon 137, 1-371

Wright C. W., Calloman J. H., et al (1996) Cretaceous Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology L 4, 1-362

Blau J. (1998) Monographie der Ammoniten des Obersinemuriums (Lotharingium, Lias) der Lienzer Dolomiten (Österreich): Biostratigraphie, Systematik und Paläobiogeographie, Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 17, 177-285

Arkadiev V. V., Atabekian A. A., et al (2000) Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 255, 85-128

Landra G., Cecca F., et al (2000) Early Aptian ammonites from the top of the Maiolica and the anoxic "Selli level" (Lombardy, Southern Alps), Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 39 1, 29-45

Lukeneder A. (2004) Late Valanginian ammonoids: Mediterranean and Boreal elements – Implications on sea-level controlled migration (Ebenforst Syncline; Northern Calcareous Alps; Upper Austria), Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 95/96, 46-59

Venturi F., Nannarone C., et al (2005) Early Pliensbachian ammonites from the Furlo Pass (Marche, Italy): two new faunas for the middle-western Tethys, Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 44, 81-115

Alsen P. (2006) The Early Cretaceous (Late Ryazanian-Early Hauterivian) ammonite fauna of North-East Greenland: taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and biogeography, Fossils and Strata 53, 1-229

Hillebrandt A. (2006) Ammoniten aus dem Pliensbachium (Carixium und Domerium) von Südamerika, Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 25, 1-403

Hoffmann R. (2010) New insights on the phylogeny of the Lytoceratoidea (Ammonitina) from the septal lobe and its functional interpretation, Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 29, 1-156

Hoffmann R., Keupp H. (2010) The myth of the Triassic lytoceratid ammonite Trachyphyllites Arthaber, 1927, in reality an Early Jurassic Analytoceras hermanni Gümbel, 1861, Acta Geologica Polonica 60, 219-229

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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