Lytoceras batesi
Temporal range:
Fossil shells of Lytoceras batesi from Shasta County, California, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Lytoceratidae
Genus: Lytoceras
Species:
L. batesi
Binomial name
Lytoceras batesi
Whiteaves, 1884

Lytoceras batesi is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period.

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