Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Alternative combinations: Mortoniceras fallax, Pervinquieria fallax
Full reference: M. Breistroffer. 1940. Révision des ammonites des Vraconien de Salazac (Gard) et considérations générales sur ce sous-étage albien. Travaux du Laboratoire de Géologie de l'Université de Grenoble 22:1-101
Belongs to Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) according to J. Sharifi et al. 2016
See also Breistroffer 1940, Kennedy et al. 2008 and Latil 1995
Sister taxa: Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) aequatorealis, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) albense, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) densecostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) evolutum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fissicostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) kiliani, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) multicostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nanum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) ornatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) pachys, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) potternense, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) quadrinodosum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) recticostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) subrotundum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) vespertinus, Mortoniceras (Styphloceras) lowrii, Mortoniceras (Styphloceras) downii
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection), France (1), Iran (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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