Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Full reference: A. K. Miller. 1951. Tertiary nautiloids of west-coastal Africa. Annales du Museé du Congo Belge Tervuren, Sciences Géologiques 8:1-88
Belongs to Deltoidonautilus according to A. K. Miller and L. B. Carpenter 1956
See also Miller 1951
Sister taxa: Deltoidonautilus arcuatus, Deltoidonautilus biyogorensis, 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
Type specimen: Its type locality is Bed 31, Landana, Kabinda, which is in a Lutetian open shallow subtidal packstone in the Landana Formation of Angola
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Angola (2 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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