''Laevapetchyus'' is a genus of
ammonite
Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...
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In Europe, most representatives of the genus ''Laevaptychus'' occur by the end of the early Tithonian. ''Laevaptychus latus'' is common throughout the Upper Jurassic and is abundant in the Alpine-Mediterranean region.
It is also recorded in southern Arabia, Tunisia, Somalia and the western North Atlantic.
In Mexico, the first records of ''Aptychus latus'' (= ''Laevaptychus latus'') are provided from the Upper Jurassic of the La Caja Formation at Sierra de Catorce,
San Luis Potosí
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and from the upper Kimmeridgian "Couche à ''Haploceras'' d. gr. ''Fialar''" of Sierra de Santa Rosa,
Mazapil,
Zacatecas
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References
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Ammonitida genera