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 1951

Sister taxa: Deltoidonautilus arcuatus, Deltoidonautilus biyogorensis, Deltoidonautilus caheni, Deltoidonautilus cassinianus, Deltoidonautilus chudeaui, Deltoidonautilus deluci, Deltoidonautilus elliotti, Deltoidonautilus hassani, Deltoidonautilus haughti, Deltoidonautilus molli, Deltoidonautilus okinoshimensis, Deltoidonautilus rogeri, Deltoidonautilus salisfilius, Deltoidonautilus senegalensis, Deltoidonautilus singularis, Deltoidonautilus somaliensis, Deltoidonautilus sowerbyi, Deltoidonautilus spathi, Deltoidonautilus togoensis, Deltoidonautilus vredenburgi

Type specimen: MNHN-F-R06329, a shell. Its type locality is Anou-Melloum, near Gao (niveau éocène), which is in a Selandian/Thanetian carbonate limestone in the Teberemt Formation of Mali.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 170.0

Distribution: found only at Anou-Melloum, near Gao (niveau éocène)

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