Hercoglossa asiatica Shimansky 1975 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Hercoglossidae

Full reference: V. N. Shimansky. 1975. Melovye Nautiloidei. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 150:1-208

Belongs to Hercoglossa according to V. N. Shimansky 1975

Sister taxa: 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, Hercoglossa waringi

Type specimen: PIN 2040/2, a shell. Its type locality is Shamli, Kopetdag, which is in a Danian marine horizon in Turkmenistan.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Shamli, Kopetdag

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