Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Alternative spelling: Hercoglossinae
Parent taxon: Nautiloidea according to K. I. Schnetler and C. Heilmann-Clausen 2011
See also Adegoke 1977, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Shimansky 1975, Tanabe and Chiba 1983 and Teichert et al. 1964
Sister taxa: Aturiidae, Cenoceratidae, Cymatoceratidae, Nautilidae, Paracenoceratidae, Pseudonautilidae
Subtaxa: Aturoidea Cimomia Deltoidonautilus Hercoglossa Teichertia
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Israel (3 collections)
• Eocene of Angola (2), Antarctica (1), Australia (17), Austria (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Denmark (3), Egypt (4), France (7), Hungary (1), India (9), Italy (3), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Mali (1), Mexico (2), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (8), Senegal (11), Somalia (17), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (24), United States (6: Alabama, Maryland, New Jersey, Texas, Washington), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (3), Niger (1)
• Paleocene of Angola (2), Argentina (6), Australia (6), Austria (1), Brazil (2), Colombia (1), Cuba (1), Denmark (3), Egypt (7), France (1), Georgia (2), Kazakhstan (7), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mali (7), Mexico (4), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), the Russian Federation (8), Senegal (2), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Togo (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (4), United States (64: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas)
• Motuan of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (1), Egypt (2), Germany (2), India (1), Jordan (1), Mali (1), Oman (2), Spain (4), Ukraine (1), the United Arab Emirates (3)
Total: 295 collections including 337 occurrences