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 A. K. 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 walteri
Type specimen: PRI (unknown number), a shell. Its type locality is Bontour Point, San Fernando, which is in a Bartonian marine horizon in the Soldado Formation of Trinidad and Tobago.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 194.0
Distribution: found only at Bontour Point, San Fernando
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