Lithacoceras

{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Oxfordian|Tithonian|ref=<ref name="Sepkoski Ceph">{{cite journal | last=Sepkoski | first=Jack | title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry) | journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=363 | pages=1–560 | year=2002 | url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class |accessdate=2017-10-18 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507014300/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class | archivedate=2008-05-07 }}</ref>}} | image = Ataxioceratidae - Lithacoceras achilles.JPG | image_caption = Fossil of ''Lithacoceras achilles'' from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | taxon = Lithacoceras | authority = Hyatt, 1900 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision_ref = <ref name="paleodb"/> | subdivision = * ''Lithacoceras malarguense'' <small>Spath, 1931</small> * ''Lithacoceras picunleufuense'' <small>Parent ''et al.'', 2011</small> }}

'''''Lithacoceras''''' is an extinct ammonite cephalopod genus included in the superfamily Perisphinctoidea. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, from the Oxfordian age to the Tithonian age.<ref name="Sepkoski Ceph"/>

==Distribution== Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic sediments of Antarctica, Argentina, Canada, Cuba, France, Germany, Madagascar, Somalia, Spain, United States and Yemen.<ref name="paleodb">[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15125 Paleobiology Database - Lithacoceras]. 2017-10-19.</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

* Wojciech Brochwicz-Lewiński [https://geojournals.pgi.gov.pl/agp/article/view/9895 Middle Oxfordian representatives of the genera Lithacoceras Hyatt, 1900, and Liosphinctes Buckman, 1925, from the Polish Jura Chain]

Category:Jurassic ammonites Category:Ammonites of North America Category:Ammonitida genera Category:Perisphinctoidea