This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
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Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Suess, 1865
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Lytoceras
Alternative Name
Ammonites (Lytoceras)
scientific
Ammonoceratites
Bowditch, 1822
Ref.: J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
scientific
Biasaloceras
Drushchits, 1953
Ref.: R. Hoffmann. 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
scientific
Crenilytoceras
Buckman, 1926
Ref.: M. K. Howarth. 1962. The Jet Rock Series and the Alum Shale Series of the Yorkshire coast. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 33:381-422
scientific
Dinolytoceras
Besnossov, 1958
Ref.: R. Hoffmann. 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
scientific
Eulytoceras
Spath, 1927
Ref.: J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
scientific
Hemilytoceras
Spath, 1927
Ref.: J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
scientific
Kallilytoceras
Buckman, 1921
Ref.: M. Rakús and J. Guex. 2002. Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne) 39:1-149
Litoceras
Lobolytoceras
Synonym: Buckman 1923
scientific
Lytoceras (Ammonoceratites)
Bowditch, 1822
Ref.: J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
scientific
Lytoceras (Kallilytoceras)
Buckman, 1921
Ref.: M. Rakús and J. Guex. 2002. Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne) 39:1-149
scientific
Metalytoceras
Spath, 1927
Ref.: J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
scientific
Orcholytoceras
Buckman, 1926
Ref.: R. Hoffmann. 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
scientific
Pterolytoceras
Spath, 1927
Ref.: J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
scientific
Saturnoceras
Anderson, 1938
Ref.: R. Hoffmann. 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
scientific
Thysanolytoceras
Buckman, 1905
Ref.: M. Collignon. 1962. Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule IX (Aptien). Service Géologique Tananarive
scientific
Valentolytoceras
Besnossov, 1958
Ref.: R. Hoffmann. 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
A. Galácz, 2017 - Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) ammonites of stratigraphical and Palaeobiogeographical importance from Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa - Geodiversitas (39), 717-727 (journal article, English)
D. Grigore, 2013 - Revised ammonites fauna (phylloceratids, lytoceratids and aspidoceratids-Sutneria species) from "Acanthicum Beds" of the Hăghimaş Mts. (eastern Carpathians - Romania) - Revue Roumaine de Géologie (57), 81-110 (journal article, English)
C. A. Salazar Soto, 2012 - The Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary (Tithonian - Hauterivian) in the Andean Basin of Central Chile: Ammonites, Bio- and Sequence Stratigraphy and Palaeobiogeography - (), - (journal article, English)
C. Meister, 2011 - Les ammonites du Pliensbachien du jebel Bou Rharraf (Haut Atlas oriental, Maroc) - Geobios (44), 117.e-117.e (journal article, French)
C. Meister, 2011 - Sinemurian ammonites from Male Karpaty Mts., Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Part 1: Phylloceratoidea, Lytoceratoidea, Schlotheimiidae - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen (259), 25-88 (journal article, English)
Z. Kovács, 2011 - Lower Toarcian Ammonitida fauna and biostratigraphy of the Gerecse Mountains (Hungary) - Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica (29), 1-48 (journal article, English)
A. Galácz, 2010 - Ammonite stratigraphy of a Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) section on Nagy-Pisznice Hill (Gerecse Mts, Hungary) - Central European Geology (53), 311-342 (journal article, English)
R. Hoffmann, 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 (journal article, English)
B. Geczy, 2007 - Les ammonites du Sinémurien et du Pliensbachien inférieur de la montagne du Bakony (Hongrie) - Revue de Paléobiologie (26), 137-305 (journal article, French)
A. Lukeneder, 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 (journal article, English)
M. Rakús, 2002 - Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne - Mémoires de Géologie (39), 1-149 (serial monograph, French)
J. J. Sepkoski, Jr., 2002 - A compendium of fossil marine animal genera - Bulletins of American Paleontology (363), 1-560 (serial monograph, English)
G. Landra, 2000 - Early Aptian ammonites from the top of the Maiolica and the anoxic "Selli level" (Lombardy, Southern Alps) - Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana (39), 29-45 (journal article, English)
F. Cecca, 1998 - Latest Hauterivian (Early Cretaceous) ammonites from Umbria-Marche Apennines (central Italy) - Palaeontographia Italica (85), 61-110 (journal article, English)
J. Blau, 1998 - Monographie der Ammoniten des Obersinemuriums (Lotharingium, Lias) der Lienzer Dolomiten (Österreich): Biostratigraphie, Systematik und Paläobiogeographie - Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève (17), 177-285 (journal article, German)
B. Géczy, 1998 - Les ammonites du Domérien de la montagne du Bakony (Hongrie) - Revue de Paléobiologie (17), 69-161 (journal article, French)
G. K. Jakobs, 1997 - Toarcian (Early Jurassic) ammonoids from western North America - Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin (428), 137pp- (serial monograph, English)
C. W. Wright, 1996 - Cretaceous Ammonoidea - Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (L), 1-362 (book/book chapter, English)
S. Reboulet, 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 (serial monograph, French)
A. Zeiss, 1994 - A new ammonite fauna from the Tithonian (Semiformiceras/Verruciferum Zone) of the Lessinian Alps, Verona Province, Northern Italy - Palaeopelagos Special Publication (1), 367-381 (journal article, English)
E. Avram, 1993 - A peculiar Upper Valanginian cephalopod fauna from the Carpatic Bend (Codlea town area, Romania): biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications - Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (136), 665-700 (journal article, English)
J. Blau, 1991 - Liassic (Pliensbachian) ammonites from the Lienz Dolomites (Eastern Tyrol, Austria) - Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (134), 171-204 (journal article, English)
C. Meister, 1989 - Les ammonites Domérien des Causses (France) - Cahiers de Paléontologie (), 1-80 (serial monograph, French)
G. R. Stevens, 1985 - A revision of the Lytoceratinae (Subclass Ammonoidea) including Lytoceras taharoaense n. sp., Upper Jurassic, New Zealand - New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics (28), 153-185 (journal article, English)
R. Förster, 1983 - Ammoniten und Alter der Niongala-Schichten (Unterapt, Süd-Tanzania) - Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie (23), 51-76 (journal article, German)
R. Förster, 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 (journal article, English)
F. H. McLearn, 1972 - Ammonoids of the lower Cretaceous sandstone member of the Haida Formation, Skidgate Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, western British Columbia - Geological Bulletin of Canada Bulletin (188), 1-78 (serial monograph, English)
J. Guex, 1972 - Réparation biostratigraphique des ammonites du Toarcien moyen de la bordure sud des Causses (France) et révision des ammonites décrites et figurées par Monestier (1931) - Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (65), 611-645 (journal article, French)
J. Wiedmann, 1970 - Über den Ursprung der Neoammonoideen - das Problem einer Typogenese - Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (63), 923-1020 (journal article, German)
G. E. G. Westermann, 1969 - The ammonite fauna of the Kialagvik Formation at Wide Bay, Alaska Peninsula. Part II. Sonninia sowerbyi zone (Bajocian) - Bulletins of American Paleontology (57), 1-226 (serial monograph, English)
M. Collignon, 1962 - Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule IX (Aptien) - Service Géologique Tananarive (), 1-64 (serial monograph, English)
M. K. Howarth, 1962 - The Jet Rock Series and the Alum Shale Series of the Yorkshire coast - Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society (33), 381-422 (journal article, English)
R. W. Imlay, 1960 - Ammonites of Early Cretaceous age (Valanginian and Hauterivian) from the Pacific Coast states - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (334), 1-228 (serial monograph, English)
A. Jeannet, 1951 - Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie des oolithischen Eisenerzlagers von Herznach und seiner Umgebung - Beiträge zur Geologie der Schweiz, Geotechnische Serie (13), 1-240 (journal article, German)
H. Douvillé, 1916 - Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez - Mémoire de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris (54), 1-184 (serial monograph, French)
F. M. Anderson, 1902 - Cretaceous Deposits of the Pacific Coast - Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (2), 1-155 (serial monograph, English)