Audaxlytoceras


Audaxlytoceras is an extinct genus of lytoceratid ammonites.

Taxonomy

The Middle Jurassic Nannolytoceras is its closest relative. Aegolytoceras and Peripleuroceras Tutcher and Trueman 1925 are synonyms.

Fossil record

This 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.

Description

Its 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.