Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Knemiceratidae

Full reference: V.E. Benavides-Caceres. 1956. Cretaceous system in northern Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 108(4):1-493

Belongs to Parengonoceras according to V.E. Benavides-Caceres 1956

Sister taxa: Parengonoceras algerianum, Parengonoceras bussoni, Parengonoceras caneroti, Parengonoceras champaraense, Parengonoceras chottensis, Parengonoceras duartei, Parengonoceras ebrayi, Parengonoceras guadaloupaeforme, Parengonoceras mahmoudi, Parengonoceras pernodosum, Parengonoceras roemeri, Parengonoceras ziczag

Type specimen: AMNH 27399.1, a shell. Its type locality is Bed 9, Section 4 - Celendín [Crisnejas Fm], which is in an Albian carbonate shale in the Crisnejas Formation of Peru.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 66.4

Distribution: found only at Bed 9, Section 4 - Celendín [Crisnejas Fm]

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