AudaxlytocerasAudaxlytoceras is an extinct genus of lytoceratid ammonites.TaxonomyThe Middle Jurassic Nannolytoceras is its closest relative. Aegolytoceras and Peripleuroceras Tutcher and Trueman 1925 are synonyms.Fossil recordThis genus is known in the fossil record from the Lower Jurassic . Fossils of species within this genus have been found in France, Germany, Italy, Morocco and Spain.DescriptionIts shell is small, smooth, evolute, only slightly impressed dorsally. Whorls are compressed, subquadrate in section, higher than wide, with few narrow constrictions. The suture relatively simple with a long ventral lobe and two lateral lobes.