Ptycholytoceras

Ptycholytoceras is a genus of fast-moving nektonic ammonoid carnivores^[2] included in the Lytoceratinae in which the shell has round inner and depressed outer whorls and sides with dorso-ventrally sloping folds that do not pass onto the venter (outer rim).

Ptycholytoceras Temporal range: Toarcian[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Family:	†Lytoceratidae
Subfamily:	†Lytoceratinae
Genus:	†Ptycholytoceras Spath, 1927
Species
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The type species Phycholyioceras humile (Prinz), named by Spath, 1924, first described as Lytoceras humile by Prinz in 1904, came from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian)^[1] of Hungary.