Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Synonym: Lissoniceras Benavides-Caceres 1956
Parent taxon: Hercoglossidae according to A. G. A. Hewaidy et al. 2019
See also Adegoke 1977, Benavides-Caceres 1956, Haas and Miller 1952, Hewitt 2002, Morris 1995, Sepkoski 2002, Shimansky 1975, Tanabe and Chiba 1983 and Teichert et al. 1964
Sister taxa: Aturoidea, Cimomia, Hercoglossa, Pseudaturoidea, Teichertia
Subtaxa: Deltoidonautilus arcuatus Deltoidonautilus biyogorensis Deltoidonautilus caheni Deltoidonautilus cassinianus Deltoidonautilus chudeaui Deltoidonautilus deluci Deltoidonautilus elliotti Deltoidonautilus hassani Deltoidonautilus haughti Deltoidonautilus lemoinei Deltoidonautilus molli Deltoidonautilus okinoshimensis Deltoidonautilus rogeri Deltoidonautilus salisfilius Deltoidonautilus senegalensis Deltoidonautilus singularis Deltoidonautilus somaliensis Deltoidonautilus sowerbyi Deltoidonautilus spathi Deltoidonautilus togoensis Deltoidonautilus vredenburgi
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Angola (2 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (5), Japan (3), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (4), Senegal (11), Somalia (8), the United Kingdom (8)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (1), Niger (1)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), Mali (5), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), Senegal (1), Togo (1)
• Cretaceous of Azerbaijan (1), Oman (1), the United Arab Emirates (3)
Total: 61 collections including 64 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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