Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Full reference: A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234
Belongs to Hercoglossa according to S. CasadÃo et al. 1999
See also Miller 1947
Sister taxa: Hercoglossa asiatica, Hercoglossa danica, Hercoglossa diderrichi, Hercoglossa gardnerae, Hercoglossa harrisi, Hercoglossa indica, Hercoglossa madagascariensis, Hercoglossa majungaensis, Hercoglossa maracaiboensis, Hercoglossa mcglameryae, Hercoglossa merriami, Hercoglossa orbiculata, Hercoglossa pavlowi, Hercoglossa peruviana, Hercoglossa popenoei, Hercoglossa rionegrensis, Hercoglossa romeroi, Hercoglossa simiensis, Hercoglossa splendens, Hercoglossa trichinopolitensis, Hercoglossa tuomeyi, Hercoglossa ulrichi, Hercoglossa utaturensis, Hercoglossa waringi
Type specimen: SUI 1085, a partial shell. Its type locality is South of Highway 96, northeast of Kimbrough, which is in a Danian deep subtidal ramp packstone in the Clayton Formation of Alabama.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 245.0
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Argentina (1 collection), United States (1: Alabama)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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