Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Knemiceratidae
Alternative combination: Placenticeras saadense
Full reference: A. Peron and P. Thomas. 1890. Description des mollusques fossiles des Terrains Crétacés de la région sud des Haut-Plateaux de la Tunisie recueillis en 1885 et 1886 par M. Philippe Thomas. Exploration Scientifique de la Tunisie, Masson, Paris 1-103
Belongs to Knemiceras according to M. Breistroffer 1940
See also Peron and Thomas 1890
Sister taxa: Knemiceras (Iranoknemiceras), Knemiceras (Omaimaiceras), Knemiceras aegyptiacum, Knemiceras arambourgi, Knemiceras compressum, Knemiceras deserti, Knemiceras douvillei, Knemiceras dubertreti, Knemiceras flexiloculosum, Knemiceras gracile, Knemiceras gracilecostatum, Knemiceras iraniense, Knemiceras kazhdumiense, Knemiceras lanceolatum, Knemiceras libertadense, Knemiceras multicostatum, Knemiceras sagetae, Knemiceras saharae, Knemiceras spathi, Knemiceras subcomplicatum, Knemiceras subcompressum, Knemiceras syriacum, Knemiceras toussainti, Knemiceras tunisiense, Knemiceras uhligi
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Gastropoda, Late Albian, Salazac, Gard (Cretaceous of France)
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