Parengonoceras champaraense Benavides-Caceres 1956 (ammonite)

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 chottensis, Parengonoceras duartei, Parengonoceras ebrayi, Parengonoceras guadaloupaeforme, Parengonoceras haasi, Parengonoceras mahmoudi, Parengonoceras pernodosum, Parengonoceras roemeri, Parengonoceras ziczag

Type specimen: AMNH 27848, a shell. Its type locality is Bed 8, Sihuas section, which is in an Albian carbonate marl in the Chulec Formation of Peru.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 139.0

Distribution: found only at Bed 8, Sihuas section

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